4tb WD4001FAEX drive for secondary storage formatting allows use of half of drive.

Franklin B · Feb 10, 2014

I bought and installed a new 4tb WD4001FAEX SATA drive for secondary storage but the drive only lets me format approx half the drive leaving the other half unallocated. It makes no sense and is both a major waste and a bummer. It actually shows two separate volumes on the drive! I use a SSD for my C: drive which operates perfectly. For what its worth, I have a LGA 1150 Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H motherboard that is UEFI. Does this have something to do with MBR and GBT? I could really use some advice.

Phillip Corcoran · Feb 10, 2014

You guessed right. The commonly used MBR partition style only works with disks/partitions up to 2TB. For disks with a capacity higher than that, you have to use the GPT partition style for that disk.

You can convert MBR disk to GPT using the MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable CD:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

The appropriate tutorial for converting MBR to GPT using the above boot disc is here:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/convert-MBR-disk-to-GPT-disk.html

Hawkeye22 · Feb 10, 2014

If there is no data on the drive yet, just use windows disk management to delete all partitions on that drive, then create new GPT partitions.

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