I'm new to Linux type systems, but that doesn't mean my problem is simple (or maybe it is).
I've been happily using SME 7.4 for a few years (well, it started as 7.1), but I've come to the point where my single 1 TB drive was not going to be sufficient. So I thought that I would back all the data that I had on the drive, install a 3TB drive (that I could afford), re-install SME, transfer all the data back and be happy.
Problem is that my "server" is nothing more than a simple HP 5100 small form factor desktop computer, with only one SATA port and 1 IDE port on the MB. Actually, that's not the problem... the problem is that I can't use a 3 TB drive in this computer.
So, I had a Dell optiplex lying around and thought that I would try that.
But it doesn't work with that computer either. I get the same message on both machines; "Your boot partition is on a disk using the GPT partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT".
Should I:
A. put another hard drive in the optiplex and install SME to boot off the smaller (160 or 500GB ) drive and use the 3TB for storage.
or
B. find out what GPT partitioning is and change it to something that works with my optiplex
(I'm picking the optiplex because is recognizes the 3TB drive - the HP thinks the drive is only 800 GB)
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