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Instructions on how to install internal drives larger than 2 TB

Thank you for purchasing a new hard drive from Seagate. You are only minutes away from unlocking all the capacity of
your new hard drive. Please download the new DiscWizard™ software to configure your drive to best meet your needs.

Getting the most out of your over-2 TB hard drive

Using a hard drive larger than 2.1 TB on Windows-based computer systems may require special setup considerations:

Operating
BIOS Boot Disc Data Disc
System
Windows Vista UEFI
Supported by Windows 64-bit only Supported by Windows
and newer BIOS*
Windows Vista PC Use DiscWizard Extended Capacity
Supported by Windows
and newer BIOS Manager Software
PC Use DiscWizard Extended Capacity Use DiscWizard Extended Capacity
Windows XP
BIOS Manager Software Manager Software
 
* Universal Extensible Firmware Interface

Seagate Extended Capacity Manager

The Seagate Extended Capacity Manager (ECM) allows your operating system (OS) to support large capacity disks that
have the MBR partition style. You are able to use the disk space beyond 2 TB. This free space will be recognised as a
separate disk, and will be usable by your operating system and applications as if it were a regular physical hard
disk. (ECM User Guide)

Useful Links Beyond 2 TB Support Links

Beyond 2 TB Learning Migrate your data to 3 TB drive on Windows Vista & 7:
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Mac OS X information
Linux information

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Compatibility Highlights

- If your system uses the Intel RST driver, your 3 TB disc drive may appear to be 800 GB. See our support article about
the Intel RST driver.

- System memory requirement is 1 GB and higher for 32-bit systems and 2 GB and higher for 64-bit systems.

- Extended Capacity Manager software installs a device driver to achieve full capacity on Legacy BIOS systems.

- Windows systems with legacy BIOS using Extended Capacity Manager will need two partitions on the boot drive to
achieve full capacity.

- Windows Vista and newer native support for 3 TB non-booting data drives is with GPT partitions, available on all
systems.

- Windows Vista and newer native support for booting 3 TB is on UEFI BIOS systems and using GPT partitions only.

- The startup process is delayed on a computer that has a large hard disk installed and is running Windows 7 or
Windows Server 2008 R2

     Hotfix: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2505454

- Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB

     https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2581408

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