jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pWe present the results from a pair of high-resolution, long-timescale (∼10jats:sup5</jats:sup> jats:italicGM</jats:italic>/jats:italicc</jats:italic> jats:sup3</jats:sup>), global, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical accretion disk simulations with differing initial magnetic plasma jats:italicβ</jats:italic> in order to study the effects of the initial toroidal field strength on the production of a large-scale poloidal field. We initialize our disks in approximate equilibrium with purely toroidal magnetic fields of strength jats:italicβ</jats:italic> jats:sub0</jats:sub> = 5 and 200. We also perform a limited resolution study. We find that simulations of differing field strengths diverge early in their evolution and remain distinct over the time studied, indicating that the initial magnetic conditions leave a persistent imprint in our simulations. Neither simulation enters the magnetically arrested disk regime. Both simulations are able to produce poloidal fields from initially toroidal fields, with the jats:italicβ</jats:italic> jats:sub0</jats:sub> = 5 simulation evolving clear signs of a large-scale poloidal field. We make a cautionary note that computational artifacts in the form of large-scale vortices may be introduced in the combination of initially weak field and disk-internal mesh refinement boundaries, as evidenced by the production of an jats:italicm</jats:italic> = 1 mode overdensity in the weak field simulation. Our results demonstrate that the initial toroidal field strength plays a vital role in the simulated disk evolution for the models studied.</jats:p>