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3TB Partition help

  • 07-11-2011 8:04pm
    #1
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    Just picked up a 3TB hardrive, it's only giving me an option for 2TB :( I can't format the rest of it

    Advice?

    Thanks

    Tal

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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Tallon wrote: »
    Hey guys,

    Just picked up a 3TB hardrive, it's only giving me an option for 2TB :( I can't format the rest of it

    Advice?

    Thanks

    Tal

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    Try this tool, failing that try Gparted live disc

    Nick

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  • #3
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Format it as a logical drive. MBR drives have a 2TB limit in Windows.


  • #4
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    yoyo wrote: »
    Try this tool, failing that try Gparted live disc

    Nick

    Didn't work, still won't read it
    feylya wrote: »
    Format it as a logical drive. MBR drives have a 2TB limit in Windows.

    It won't let me select anything, see the screenshot, all greyed out!

    Same when I use the programmes above!


  • #5
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    You need to delete the 2TB partition first


  • #6
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Cool, let me try that


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  • #7
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Get rid of the active partition and you'll be left with a 3TB unallocated drive. You can then create a new partition which utilizes the whole disk.

    Not sure what the limitations file system wise there is for FAT32 v NTFS etc.


  • #8
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Deleted it, and am left with 2.73TB

    Try to create a logical Partition and it won't scroll past 2TB

    Getting frustrated :D

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  • #9
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Try it with the standard Windows tool


  • #10
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    No, the same... Even if I can get 2 partitions (one 2TB and one 1TB) I'll be happy, but it's like the 3rd TB doesn't exist


  • #11
    Saganist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Tallon wrote: »
    Deleted it, and am left with 2.73TB

    Try to create a logical Partition and it won't scroll past 2TB

    Getting frustrated :D

    J3wxQ.png

    Looks like You're hitting the a 2Gb limit for Windohs.

    Might be better to just have two separate filesystems ( drive letters ) one with 2gb and one with the rest. ?

    Have a look here.

    http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/04/windows-7-3tb-hard-drives-and-larger.html


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  • #12
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    You could change your cluster size to 8192 but you may lose some space.


  • #13
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Saganist wrote: »
    Looks like You're hitting the a 2Gb limit for Windohs.

    Might be better to just have two separate filesystems ( drive letters ) one with 2gb and one with the rest. ?

    Have a look here.

    http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/04/windows-7-3tb-hard-drives-and-larger.html
    That doesnt help, it just says it can be done!


  • #14
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Tallon wrote: »
    That doesnt help, it just says it can be done!

    It does it by changing the block/cluster size ;)


  • #15
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Oh dear jesus, I had to click the little drive icon on the left :(

    It then let me convert it to a GPT disk and bang

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    Cheers guys, much appreciated


  • #16
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Yes, I had this exact problem and it took a google to figure, MBR only supports up to 2TB
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table


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