Try to re - initialize the 2nd drive hard - but how?

Hello
I buy an internal drive of Hitachi 3TO for my Vista 64 system b to use as a single data storage drive.  Accidentally, I chose the option when it is time to initialize the disc with respect to the partion 2 TB or MBR.  He advanced and formatted the drive in this way and left about 746 GB unallocated.  I want to start from scratch and have all the 3 to appear as a single volume, so I think that I need initialized as TPG (as described in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463524).

However, I can't have the option where I can convert it by the article.  How to start the process more so that I can initialize and format the drive to 3 TB.  Yet once, it is for the storage of data only and not for the operating system.
Thank you!

Found!

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671.aspx

To change a master boot record disk into a GUID partition table disk using a command line

  1. Back up or move the data on the basis of master boot drive (MBR) record that you want to convert into a disk GUID partition table (GPT).

  2. Open an elevated command prompt (right click on command promptand then click run as administrator) and type diskpart. If the disc does not contain any partitions or volumes, go to step 6.

  3. At the DISKPART prompt, type list disk. Note the number of the disk to convert.

  4. At the DISKPART prompt, type select disk .

  5. At the DISKPART prompt, type clean.

    Important
    Run the clean command deletes all partitions or volumes on the disk.
  6. At the DISKPART prompt, type convert gpt.

Then I'll return to the computer management screen and the disk appears as 2.79 TB disk and I can start the formatting process.  Phew.  That took a while to discover this.

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