ABR 11.5 not recognizing 3 TB drive
I am running Windows 7 64bit Professional and ABR 11.5 workstation. After reading the Acronis forums, it looked like ABR would work with 3 TB drives, however, the drive does not show up in the disk management list of ABR. I also tried the ABR 11.5 boot/recovery CD and it also does not recognize the drive. All the other drives show up fine.
Another thread indicated that 3 TB drives are GPT, however, when I look at the disk via Windows 7 disk management program, it seems to be indicating that the drive is MBR. However, windows sees the full 3 TB, so I'm not sure how this can be. See attached graphic of Windows disk management view. The 3TB drive is an external Seagate Expansion Drive via USB 3.0.
So my question is: what do I need to do in order to have ABR 11.5 recognize the drive so that I can both backup and restore images to/from the drive, both from ABR via windows as well as the CD recovery disc?
Okay, but then I'm confused concerning other posts on the forum concerning 3 TB drives and ABR. Can I backup and restore from them or not?
Okay; thought I figured this out. From the ABR help, I found that ABR 11 supports GPT volumes. So I deleted the MBR partition on the 3TB drive, converted the volume to GPT and formatted. All is good and Windows 7 sees the drive and partition fine. I was able to read/write the drive. I also enabled UEFI in the BIOS for good measure (even though I won't be booting from this drive, but just to be sure... enabled it anyway).
Now ABR *does* see the drive. However, it says that it is "unsupported." Please see attached graphics. One is from Windows 7 disk manager and the other is from ABR's. Window's indicates it is formatted NTFS. ABR says "NONE".
According to the ABR documentation, it says "Full support for UEFI-based systems and GPT disks. Recovery of BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based systems and vice versa." (http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11/index.html#14244.html)
What else do I need to do so that ABR recognizes the 3 TB drive?
I was able to backup to the 3 TB disk this weekend. I just was not reading your note closely enough that the disk management portion of ABR is really Disk Director. It is misleading, though, to have one part of ABR work with >2 TB disks and the other part (disk management) not.