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May 17th, 2015 07:00
Can a 4 TB drive reformatted in an external case be used as an internal drive?
I've been trying to resolve an issue related to an old post:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19566053
I think the old post was too long to be useful now, but the core issue is that for unknown reasons my Dell Studio XPS9100 refuses to play nice with 4 TB drives.
I want to buy a 4 TB WD BC desktop drive and install it in an external case, then initialize GBT, and reformat and repartition as two ~2 B partitions.
Once I have two ~2 TB partitions I want to pull it from the external case and install it inside my Dell Studio XPS 9100 as a data drive.
Is there any reason this workaround would not work?
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osprey4
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May 19th, 2015 17:00
Hi dg27,
I'm fairly certain this will work as long as the Intel RST is up to date.
dg27
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May 19th, 2015 17:00
Thanks, Osprey. I feel the same way, but I read elsewhere that some enclosures do "shifty" (their word) things to 4 TB drives to make them work, which (so they claim) render them unusable in any other device.
That sounds pretty far fetched to me.
dg27
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May 23rd, 2015 16:00
I will.
Thanks for all your help, as always.
osprey4
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May 23rd, 2015 16:00
I haven't heard that but please let me know if this approach is successful.