On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:08:40AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > > > On Oct 11, 2021, at 8:22 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is *NOT* a computer that I put together myself. > > > > This is a computer that I bought pre-assembled with the OS pre-installed. > > It only came with a 1TB SSD M.2 module (which I have not touched). But I > > knew I would have to add additional drives. > > You might be able to diagnose it with a live boot linux CD.
The fundamental problem is that a file system using 32-bit segment addressing and 512-byte segments can't be larger than 2TB. While Microsoft do now have file systems that can use 64-bit segment numbers, they aren't compatible with older firmware (and, in particular, older BIOSes), so by default file system partitions will be initialized with the backwards-compatible format. You need a system using UEFI rather than an older BIOS if you want to boot off a volume larger that 2TB. There are a couple of extra hoops you need to jump through to be able to put a file sytem larger than 2TB on a drive. Presumably this is partly an effort to stop you making a drive you can't actually use, and partly because at least some of the tools being used date back to the days when NTFS was the new large-disk system, and a 2GB drive was considered large! The disk partitioning software is quite happy with large physical volumes, so it's capable of making a raw partition larger than 2TB. The problem comes when you try and put a file system on it, because the default is NTFS. Note that Windows 11 requires UEFI -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
