Limit of 2 TB on 2nd HARD drive, how to change without affecting the system reserved Partition?

I have 2 drives - 240GB SSD where Windows is installed and a HD in Toshiba 3 TB of data.

After installing Windows 7 for the SSD, it creates a system reserved 100 MB Toshiba hard disk partition. I now want to create a single data (d) on the Toshiba partition but disk management only limit myself to create a partition of 2 TB and a 746 GB partition. Past posts to dig suggests it's the MBR problem - then what can I do now to break this limit, without deleting or play with the 100MB system reserved partition?

Hi YT :)

You're right, that this problem is caused by the fact that your hard drive is cut using the style of partition table MBR, which allows only to create partitions to a maximum of 2 TB size each. In order to 'break' this limit, you must convert your hard drive in a GPT partition table, which does not have this limit (well, the limit to 128 TB then there it doesn't matter much). You can convert your hard disk from MBR to GPT without loss of data. Follow the instructions in the tutorial below:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-MBR-to-GPT-disk

Method 2 and 3 explain how to perform the conversion without loss of data, method 3 is the easiest.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Yoan

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