Is GPT properly working on my disks?

wsh · 14 Nov 2013 at 18:52

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

wsh · 14 Nov 2013 at 19:32

Jasseh said:
GPT is the layout of the partition table, they should still show as NTFS as the partitions are still using that file system.

Thanks!

wsh · 15 Nov 2013 at 18:52

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.

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

Is GPT properly working on my disks?

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