# Migrating from 2 TByte SSD with MBR to 4 TByte with GPT

DevFeed: [Migrating from 2 TByte SSD with MBR to 4 TByte with GPT](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/migrating-from-2-tbyte-ssd-with-mbr-to-4-tbyte-with-gpt-29335.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.schakko.de/2024/12/19/migrating-from-2-tbyte-ssd-with-mbr-to-4-tbyte-with-gpt/>)

Author: Schakko

Published: 2024-12-19T11:04:54Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Schakko](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/schakko.md>)

Topics: [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [UEFI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/uefi.md>), [Disk image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disk-image.md>)

Tags: [boot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/boot.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [partitioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partitioning.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [uefi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uefi.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article documents upgrading a Windows system from a 2 TByte SSD using MBR to a 4 TByte SSD using GPT. It explains that MBR's 2 TByte limit prevented full resizing and that UEFI booting required an EFI System Partition and an MSR partition.

## Source excerpt

Yesterday I wanted to replace my 2 TByte SSD with a 4 TByte model as I was running out of hard drive space. My last upgrade two years ago from 1 TByte to 2 TByte went smoothly: I cloned the old SSD to the new SSD and then extended the [...] The post Migrating from 2 TByte SSD with MBR to 4 TByte with GPT appeared first on schakko.de.