![]() ![]() Now you need to type the following orders one by one and press “Enter” after each: Type “cmd” in the search box and choose “Run as administrator”. ![]() Connect the target disk to your computer and make sure it can be detected. You can make a backup if there’re files and data you wish to keep. Method 1: Make a hard drive bootable via CMDĬonnect your brand-new disk or an old disk without the necessary data you need, because CMD will erase all things on the disk including partitions. ![]() We’ll introduce 2 ways, the first method needs to type some pieces of commands in CMD, and the second is a convenient tool to conveniently and quickly set your disk up. In this post we’ll show you how to make a GPT hard drive bootable, let’s take a look. What’s more, when an SSD with the combination of UEFI boot mode, the GPT partition style might bring faster speed and better performance to the computer, so, many users would like to choose the GPT disk as the bootable disk. GPT partition style can support big storage space disk which makes it preferred by lots of tech enthusiasts. In the requirement list, GPT partitioned disk is a necessary point. As the newest OS on Windows PC, Windows 11 has been updated several times since it's been released. Once it gets set, it might improve your computer to a new level. Be advised that everything written through that secondary PCB card is encrypted and IF that card goes bad the data will not be retrievable although the drive may still work without it-needing to be completely reformatted and THEN won’t be compatible with XP if over 2TB.It’s quite thrilling when you have a new hard disk with sufficient capacity to store all your files, working programs, and large video games. To maintain this comparability with XP, OSX, ext3… WD Externals have a secondary PCB controller card on those HDD’s. Usually i’ll create 3 equal size partitions-and do all of that on Windows 7. I have used it but still prefer to let WD format the drive as MBR if it’s to be used on XP, I have 7 Pro 64, 10 Pro, Ubuntu, Debian and still somehow XP remains my main workhorse. Paragon makes an app that allows XP to process GPT & MBR HDD’s. I have found WD’s quick format works pretty well. You have to initialize/format them with the right tools. I’ve got 10 of them, the most recent 4TBs bought from Amazon today and working fine on XP. It’s been possible to format WD Externals 3,4,5+Tbyes for some years now. ![]()
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