Pavilion a6120n: startup of the a6120n hard disk upgrade / replacement of more than 2 TB (4 TB) not recognized

Hi all

My primary HARD drive recently failed.  So, I went out and picked up a new internal drive from HGST 4TB to replace the dead drive.

I thought I'd use the opportunity to make a new new clean install of Windows 10.  So I created, with the support of Microsoft tool, an installation of Windows 10 DVD.

Unfortunately, when I start the PC with the new Windows 10 installation disk (64-bit), it only allows me to create a new partition to a maximum size of 1768 Go.

Now I remember reading on a 4 gb limitation RAM BIOS/motherboard has, but I couldn't find any limitation on the size of the hard drive.

Although I found a few articles indicating that UEFI & GPT would be required to make it work for any HARD drive more than 2 TB, I have absolutely no idea how to proceed, or if this motherboard has a limitation.

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated, because I have been racking my brain for the last month trying to solve this problem.

What you do not have to disclose, is that the original BIOS was Vista.  Than stated, you would not have a level of BIOS available for download that would have compatibility (UEFI BIOS) level 8 and options you need.

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