Dell Inspiron 560 & UEFI

JWParker62 · Nov 11, 2014

I have recently purchased 2 Western Digital 4TB internal hard drives that I am wanting to install into my Dell Inspiron 560 (late2009) but after many different attempts to get it to partition more than half of one of the drives, I am becoming frustrated and needing assistance. The mother board for the computer is G43T-DM1 V: A00 and i have downloaded the latest BIOS upgrades from dell and other chipset upgrades from various websites. Can anyone please help me to get these drives to set up correctly.
All my research brings me back to making it UEFI compatible.

johnb35 · Nov 11, 2014

A 2009 system won't have a UEFI bios. You will need to use third party software to partition them into 2- 2tb partitions.

JWParker62 · Nov 12, 2014

I was afraid of that. Which third party software do you recommend?

johnb35 · Nov 12, 2014

You can download and create a hirens boot cd which has a few programs on there that can partition a drive.

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip

Unzip it, burn the iso image to a cd and boot to the cd. It has a lot of other good programs on their that is nice to have.

Dell Inspiron 560 & UEFI

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