- Oct 5, 2013
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I have a Linksys E4200 router and connected a new WD Elements 3TB external HDD to. The router reads that it has the full 3TB so I thought everything was fine and dandy. It was until a year or so later that when I finally filled it to 746GB, I was already full! I tried hooking it up to my desktop and it would do the same thing to me.
I've searched all over for a solution and I tried several things without much success. I've updated the firmware of my router, I've updated my desktop's Intel chipset and mobo bios. I looked up the hard drive in Disk Management and the weird thing is it shows the drive as NTFS 746.52GB (0% free) but in the lower half of Disk Management, it shows the drive as having one partition that is 2794.52GB, with all space allocated.
I'm so lost on this one. Ideally I would move all 746GB to my desktop, reformat the external, and move it back. However...I don't have the space, which was why I have a 3TB in the first place! Please advise
I've searched all over for a solution and I tried several things without much success. I've updated the firmware of my router, I've updated my desktop's Intel chipset and mobo bios. I looked up the hard drive in Disk Management and the weird thing is it shows the drive as NTFS 746.52GB (0% free) but in the lower half of Disk Management, it shows the drive as having one partition that is 2794.52GB, with all space allocated.
I'm so lost on this one. Ideally I would move all 746GB to my desktop, reformat the external, and move it back. However...I don't have the space, which was why I have a 3TB in the first place! Please advise
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