Hi I have 4TB My passport it comes with default GPT partitioning which is not recognised by Smart TV . The moment i convert to MBR it start working on TV but the max capacity it used only 2TB. I have seen many forums which talks about advance tools by Vendor or some 3rd party Software which can make…

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To my knowledge, this is not possible. 2TB is the limitation of MBR partitioning scheme since the day it created. The only way to make full use of the disk storage is use the GPT partition style. Maybe there is some way to make your Smart TV recognize the GPT disk, like install some certain driver o…

4TB MBR is possible via 512 Byte Emulation … which WD (and Seagate) did use on external hard drives for a while (i have older 3TB and 4TB WD Elements/My Books which are MBR and old Windows XP 32-bit sees the full capacity fine) But, WD no longer use 512 Byte Emulation on their hard drives anymore ……

4TB MBR is possible via 512 Byte Emulation … which WD (and Seagate) did use on external hard drives for a while (i have older 3TB and 4TB WD Elements/My Books which are MBR and old Windows XP 32-bit sees the full capacity fine) Very nice to know.

I bought an WD Elements 4TB external this week (February 2019!) and if comes with NTFS MBR! I did a clone that f*** the whole partition (and became RAW for the OS, showed up 2 partitions on MiniTool Partition Wizard and ONE partition on EaseUS Partition Master!) I had to RESET it to factory format…

[image] marcolopes: I bought an WD Elements 4TB external this week (February 2019!) and if comes with NTFS MBR! most probably old stock

Shouldn’t an Advanced Format drive show 512bytes sectors? My new WD Elements (25A3) shows 4k!! Also, with WD Align - Powered by Acronis tool, it shows NOT to be Advanced Format! but my old WD elments 2TB shows as Advanced Format! (this one has 512Bytes sectors) I’m totally confused!

[image] marcolopes: Shouldn’t an Advanced Format drive show 512bytes sectors? Advanced Format is 4096 bytes sectors … there is also Advanced Format 512 byte Emulation (explained below) Advanced Format Advanced Format (AF) is any disk sector format used to store data on magnetic di…

I’ve read all that you said before… but My WD Elements reports 4k Sectors and is formatted NTFS MBR!! How is that possible? Shouldn’t emulate 512Byte Sectors? Also, In the box there is NO winXP compatibility… YET, the Format tool from WD formatted it with MBR! Will i have problems in the future? If…

4TB on MBR and not GPT

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G_Rayn June 15, 2017, 8:03pm 3

Hi,

I have never tried this since a third party application might be needed. Let’s see if a User who has experience can comment on this.

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