[ale] can't install windows on ST3000DM001

[Paul Cartwright]

On 08/03/2015 07:12 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Disks over 2TB are shipped with GPT partitioning. MBR is limited to 2TB
> (approx).
>
> Don't forget that Windows has lots of rules for how it will boot. Look
> those up:
> * whether it will support GPT,
> * when 64-bit OS is mandatory and
> * when UEFI is mandatory.
>
> I suspect you are hitting some of those.  The trivial workaround is to
> boot off a smaller disk with MBR.
>
> OTOH, be certain you review all the privacy sucking new "features" in
> Win10. They actually push the whole drive encryption private keys to
> microsoft servers - I'm serious. Who thought that was a good idea?
I repartitioned the drive when I got it. nothing is over 1TB..

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1             2048     206847     204800   100M  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2  *        206848 1463164927 1462958080 697.6G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       1565564928 1578051583   12486656     6G 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda4       1578051584 5860532223 4282480640     2T  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       1578053632 3523868671 1945815040 927.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6       3523870720 3851743231  327872512 156.4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7       3851745280 5860532223 2008786944 957.9G 83 Linux


I just installed windows 10 on my wife's laptop, I went to advanced and
turned off EVERYTHING!!
then booted windows, went into setup, and turned off all 13 screens of
privacy stuff..

I think maybe I need to change that sda1 to /biosboot maybe...

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587