{"id":159,"date":"2010-10-31T01:47:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-12-16T06:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T06:52:48","slug":"asus-tool-provides-solution-for-2-2tb-hdds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Asus tool provides solution for 2.2TB+ HDDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/asus_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-160\" title=\"asus_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/asus_logo-150x54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asus has released a new software tool that is aimed at legacy systems to  make it possible to fully access hard drives with more than 2.2TB of  storage space.<\/p>\n<div>Disk Unlocker is a free utility for Asus motherboards that are limited by BIOS as 3TB  internal HDDs roll onto the market. The tool cannot create a bootable partition based on the GUID partition table (GPT). Instead, it simply allows  users running Windows XP x64, Windows Vista and Windows 7 access the  extra space beyond the 2.2GB limit.<\/p>\n<p>To boot from a GPT partitioned drive you would need an <strong>Extensive Firmware Interface<\/strong>-capable  motherboard. Disk Unlocker, when run, provides a drop-down list of HDDs  with more than 2.2TB capacity (but does not list any that already use  the GPT format). When a user makes a selection, the tool creates a new virtual drive that gives the user control over the extra storage space.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the first software solution to overcome current  operating system limitations that prevent a hard disk drive from  utilizing more than 2048 GB (also known as 2.2TB),&#8221;<\/em> the company said. <em>&#8220;With  just a few clicks, Disk Unlocker taps into hidden storage space beyond  the nominal 2048 GB range, helping you use large hard drives to their  maximum potential.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the asian times<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asus has released a new software tool that is aimed at legacy systems to make it possible to fully access hard drives with more than 2.2TB of storage space. Disk Unlocker is a free utility for Asus motherboards that are limited by BIOS as 3TB internal HDDs roll onto the market. The tool cannot create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theasiantimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}