WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE INSTALL
WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE PC

The MBR Partitions can define a disk drive capacity up to 2.2TB. This type of BIOS uses a Master Boot Record (MBR).

WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE PC

Most legacy systems built before 2011 have a traditional PC BIOS.

WD MY BOOK 3TB USB 3.0 HARD DRIVE INSTALL

You say WD drives above 2 TBвЂ™s need this GPT stuffвЂ¦ what about other brands? There has to be some that do not, there are tutorials all over the net where people install Linux on the 3 or even 4 TB external USB drivesвЂ¦Д®rвЂ¦ SoвЂ¦ your telling me i need to get my money back for this drive and buy another thats not WD - which one do you suggest ?Д®dit, Scratch that last statementвЂ¦ I just found out itвЂ™s a limitation of the Legacy Bios MBR itself. ( i saw the OS was installed under GPT in Mini Tools Partition wizard from win 8 and wondered about it) I was wondering what that GPT garbage wasвЂ¦ LOLвЂ¦ I just tried to install Zorin again without my internal drive being installedвЂ¦ this time it did install grub and it seemed that the install finished properly asking me to reboot to use it -but my system still would not read the drive of courseвЂ¦ now i knowвЂ¦ cus of this GPT garbage. Of all i can think ofвЂ¦ option 3 a jumper setting seems most likely, but i want input from those who has had this problem. Is it a setting I am missing (doubtful) - Is it a limitation of the USB interface WD is using? - Is it because of a Jumper Setting on the mechanical drive that needs to be moved to another position? It just donвЂ™t seem to want to do it with the USB mechanical drive.

My PC is USB bootable - in other words, i can install that Zorin OS to my 30 gig USB Flash stick and the PC will boot into the OS from start up normally. Now, to me, this is silly becuse itвЂ™s just a normal mechanical hard drive like all other mechanical hard drives - only being fed through a USB 3.0 interface. I also tried to install a live version of the distro via Unetbootin and Unetbootin cannot see the drive at all - even after re-formatting Fat 32.

I had set up a 100 gigabyte partition formatted to EXT 4 for this purpose.

It installs well enough untill it tried to install grub at the end of the instalation - it cannot ever install Grub as if itвЂ™s not finding the MBR area on the drive. I have tried to install Zorin 7.1 (Linux) to the drive from a live ISO. System Manufacturer/Model Number - HP Pavillion G7-2251dx The rest of the free space IвЂ™ll use for backup storage - at least thats the plan, if i can make this drive seen as a bootable device. It works fine as passive storage device but I want to use it also for installing one or more Linux operating systems and running them (one at a time via dual boot) on separate partitions made for each OS. ( WD My Book 3TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Security, Local and Cloud Backup (WDBFJK0030HBK-NESN) ))

Wd my book 3tb usb 3.0 hard drive