I added a WD 3tb drive to Win 7 and formatted it as a basic disk. It showed the correct size in Disk Management. Later I realized I needed it to be a dynamic disk so I changed it and now it only shows 746.39gb in disk management. It shows the full size in the BIOS on boot up. Is there any way to reset it back to full size? There is no data on it.
HD showing wrong size in Win 7
- Thread starter GP23
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I tried that but disk manager only allows me to create a 746.39gb partition. My motherboard is fairly new and when I first installed the drive it was recognized as 3tb. Now disk manager only sees the drive as 746.39gb but the BIOS sees the whole 3tb.
I had the same problem... had my drive for several months trying many "fixes" (updating from vista to windows 7, BIOS updates, every driver I could find etc. before I finally found that the external drive(s) I was trying to use did not support the 3TB size. As a last resort I removed my newer "SIIG" dual drive external from one of the other systems and tried it before shelving the drive indefinitely. I really wasn't expecting it to work but as soon as I turned it on I got a 2794.39 GB reading in my Computer Management. What a relief!
Hope this helps someone. Good Luck, GoodOlJoe
GoodOlJoe @ gmail .com
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