New SSD with new win 8.1, need help for other drives

dubester

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I had an HP 240GB SSD failing with Windows 7 loaded. bought a new Samsung 250GB SSD and loaded a new Windows 8.1 OS. i have 3 other drives, 1 drive a 500GB HDD was reconized and being used now. but 2 3TB HDD that are seen in Disk manager, but listed as Foreign drives, no partitions and no unallocatable areas. these drives have data on them and was used in the last Windows 7 OS. Had used a Disk unlocker from ASUS with the motherboard to fix this, but is unsupportable in Win 8.1. any way to "unlock" the drives and use the data on the disks with out wiping them clean?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD 8150 Zambezi
    Motherboard
    ASUS Crossfire V Formula
    Memory
    32 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
It see the drive as a dynamic drive and will no let me assign a drive letter to it
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD 8150 Zambezi
    Motherboard
    ASUS Crossfire V Formula
    Memory
    32 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
Drives larger than 2TB require the GPT allocated I believe. Windows 7 did not have GPT support but Windows 8 does.

You can convert MBR to GPT but you will need Aomei Partition Assistant to do it without data loss. See here:

Learn to Convert MBR Hard Disk to GPT without Data Loss through Powerful Software

Scroll down to: AOMEI Partition Assistant: A Magic Conversion Tool, skip the first part.
Download from here rather than cnet.com: Download Aomei Partition Assistant - MajorGeeks
cnet.com often has additional junk embedded in their downloads so avoid it at all costs.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro X64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo IdeaCenter K450
    CPU
    Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Integrated HD Graphics
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP h2207
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050@59Hz
    Hard Drives
    250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD;
    2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2;
    1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
    PSU
    500W
    Keyboard
    Wired USB
    Mouse
    Wired USB
    Internet Speed
    3GB Up, 30GB Down
    Browser
    SeaMonkey
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender; MBAM Pro
    Other Info
    UEFI/GPT
    PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
thanks will look in to this.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    AMD 8150 Zambezi
    Motherboard
    ASUS Crossfire V Formula
    Memory
    32 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
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