Hi,
Could someone please clarify this for me please?
It is in relation to UEFI.
Q1: My understanding was if the media device has UEFI at the start of it in the bios, then it is UEFI compatible.
If it has P1, P2 etc then it's not running via UEFI but via legacy bios.
Q2: If the above is correct... is there a reason as to why mechanical HDDs show as P1, P2 etc?
Are all devices showing as P1, P2 etc running in legacy or are they still running in UEFI?
I'm trying to install Windows Server 2012 R2 on a 3TB HDD. But it seems that the HDD is in legacy mode as it will not
enable me to keep the HDD as a full 3TB partition. It splits down the HDD so I get 2 partitions. One being 2TB (or around there)and the remainder as a second partition.
I've used Diskpart and done the CLEAN and then CONVERT GPT as well. It shows the HDD as GPT in Diskpart.
But when I go to install Windows Server 2012 R2 with the drive as GPT it comes up saying...
"windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
I thought that Windows Server 2012 R2 would be ok to install on GPT around the net people seem to be doing this.
So it seems that the HDD is not been utilized as UEFI? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks