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GA-MA69VM-S2 - can this use 3TB drives?

GA-MA69VM-S2 - can this use 3TB drives?
« on: December 19, 2013, 03:53:53 am »
Does the GA-MA69VM-S2 BIOS support GPT partitions so that I can use 3TB drives?

Tiger

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Re: GA-MA69VM-S2 - can this use 3TB drives?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2013, 08:13:57 pm »
It depends on whether the user will use the hard drive as a data drive or a boot drive. A data drive requires an OS that supports long LBA addressing such as Windows 7, Linux Ubuntu or Apple Mac OS X with a GUID partition table (GPT). For a Windows boot drive, the aforementioned are required, plus the user will need a motherboard with a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS and appropriate storage drivers. Since the GA-MA69VM-S2 has no UEFI BIOS you only have the data drive as a possible option.
« Last Edit: December 19, 2013, 08:14:46 pm by Tiger »
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Re: GA-MA69VM-S2 - can this use 3TB drives?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2013, 10:49:25 am »
Ah, okay. So if I boot off of a 2 TB drive with MBR, but format the 3 TB with GPT, it will be fine even though the motherboard doesn't support GPT? Linux would be the way to go for less headaches.