Windows 7 64bit limit?

Question

I have two disk each with 4 terabytes. I want to create a stripe volume to make one 8 terabytes disk.

Even though you can see them with correct space during boot up, the problem is l cannt format them as one volume.

Another issue is that one disk is showing 2 separate disks each with 2tb on it.

Fourwallsinaroom · Answer 1 · 2013-07-16T13:56:06+0000

answered Jul 16, 2013 by Fourwallsinaroom

Hello,
Are you using software raid or hardware raid? You will need to enable UEFI and GPT for drives that are larger than 2.2TB.

Best regards

commented Jul 16, 2013 by macdonald.chipunza Guru (88.1k points)

Yes thanx that worked!! I didnt kno mbr have a disk limit of 2 terabytes which is what l used first.

Thank you.

commented Jul 16, 2013 by fourwallsinaroom

You are more than welcome! I had that issue not to long ago when i formatted a work laptop that had a 3TB drive... needless to say it was a sleepless night. Glad i could help

commented Jul 18, 2013 by anthonysomerset Guru (57.6k points)

the UEFI should only be needed for booting from the said disk - standard BIOS/MBR(on a seperate disk) boot will be fine if you are only using the disk for data storage

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