Is GPT properly working on my disks?

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I've put two WD Red 3TB drives in my PC and used a combination of minitool partition wizard and windows 7 to muddle through formatting and mirroring the drives. I'm seeing 2.72TB but windows still says it's in NTFS so I'm not sure what's up. Should it say GPT instead? Also should they be basic or dynamic as my other disks are basic but these two are dynamic.

Thanks in advance

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GPT is the layout of the partition table, they should still show as NTFS as the partitions are still using that file system.
 
Broken Hope said:
The disks should be basic though, did you choose dynamic when you set up the partitions/formatted them?
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The 2 drives showing as dynamic are mirrored:

"Dynamic disks provide features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes) and the ability to create fault-tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes). Like basic disks, dynamic disks can use the MBR or GPT partition styles on systems that support both."
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Open a command prompt and type:

diskpart

Once that loads, type:

list disk

You will see something like this:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB

If the disks are GPT, there will be an asterisk (*) in the Gpt column.
 
Thanks guys, GPT is working fine now.
I wasn't too impressed with Windows 7 mirroring, syncing for hours on end for no apparent reason!
So I did the registry 'tweak' AHCI->RAID, enabled RAID in the BIOS and set up RAID1.

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So basically if one disk fails I just put a replacement in and it'll copy the data across automatically?
 
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