Untouchable area on HDD, 'Unallocated Space'

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p221b

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G'day all,

I'm using Windows 8, and I have a 3TB Sata III Seagate hard drive.

Attatched should be a screen shot of Disk Management. You can see the 'Unallocated Space' area on my HDD - how can I use this?

I'm open to extending my current partition to cover the lot, or leaving it as it's own data partition, but I just want to do something with it. How do I do this?

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Thanks for any and all help!
 
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ShadeTreeTech

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You have to partition it and set it to another drive letter. A "basic" partition type does not support partitions larger than 2.2 TB. Windows 7 64 bit can make a boot partition out of a GPT partition, but you have to have several things to do it.

Nothing is wrong, it is a limit of the basic partition type as a bootable partition.
 
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