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4tb hard disk not fully recognised under Windows 10?

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  • 22-03-2016 11:12am
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    Movie Maestro
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Looking for some advice please. I just bought a Seagate 4TB 3.5" Hard disk. I'm running Windows 10 on my desktop. I understand I have to set the drive up as GPT instead of MBR to see the full size. However, even though I do this it only shows up as 1.6tb. I've tried seagate's own tool and AOMEI partiton assistant.

    I suspect the problem could be that I have the drive in a USB dock. Is this the issue? Does it have to be initially connected to a sata port on the systemboard to be recognised correctly?

    Has anyone setup drives this size in Windows 10 recently and how did you get the full capacity recognized please :)

    Cheers


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    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,539 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Is this your main HDD?


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    Movie Maestro
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Movie Maestro


    It's not my main HDD. I use a 256GB SSD for the OS. Hopefully some other Boardies are using large drives this size, really wanna get this sorted :)


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    Movie Maestro
    Registered Users Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Movie Maestro


    Got this sorted, just connected the USB directly to the systemboard and was able to use the seagate tools to initialize the drive as GPT :)


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