Compaq dc5800 format microtour: Compaq dc5800 format microtour - 4 TB hard

I bought a 4 TB harddrive and installed in a HP Compaq dc5800 microtour.

The drive is recognized by the computer, but in the BIOS indicates that the capacity of the disk is just 1.8 to.

I checked all BIOS storage options and doesn't see any clear way to solve this problem.

Is it possible to do?

Hello:

If you use it as a main drive, it won't work because your PC lacks a UEFI BIOS.

The maximum size of hard drive, you can install a HARD primary as 2 TB in your model drive.

If you use it as a secondary disk (storage), you should be able to format in GPT to use all 4 to.

Read this white paper from HP on TPG...

http://h20566.www2.HP.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.Oid=3658081&docid=emr_na-c02826744&docLocale=en_US

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