WD 4TB My Book

anon92751919 · October 15, 2015, 1:18am

Do new WD 4TB My Book drives come preformatted with GPT from the factory?

Trancer · October 15, 2015, 2:36am

They likely do. It’s the optimal configuration for newer versions of Windows and hard drive capacities over 3TB.

anon92751919 · October 15, 2015, 2:36am

I just bought the drive yesterday and it shows up as MBR in Macrium Reflect.

Trancer · October 15, 2015, 2:36am

What about Windows Disk Management?

anon92751919 · October 15, 2015, 2:36am

MBR, right-click drive, click properties and goto Volume tab and it says Master Boot Record. When I use fsutil ntfsinfo it says 4096 bytes per sector and 4096 bytes per physical sector.

thewul · August 16, 2019, 9:04pm

Allow me to step in here - AFAIK they are MBR

Even think the internal 4TB drives come as MBR.

(FWIW some screenshots)