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So, I've been trying to wrap my head around this. This is kind of complicated so try and bear with me.
I've recently bumped my system over to use RAID0 SSD's, and the old backup drive that I was using which used to be an external HDD is now mis-reporting.
Its saying that its got 746gb of un allocated space.
To get this HDD to even work, I had to use a tool (of which i forgot its name, but it was quite powerful but i remember I had to run a dos box to use it) I had to go in, and re-build the part on the HDD that told the computer where everything was, then re-format it to 2048gb.
Heres the trick. Its actually a 3tb hard drive. For whatever reason, it WOULD NOT let me make more than 2tb of it visible. Had something to do with the how i re-built it.
Anyways, now that my system is Raid, the partition that had everything on it is hidden, and the 750 or so GB that was left over is now visible and able to be formatted.
"okay interesting, so how do i get the other 2gb back?"
Thats my question anyway. When I boot the system, it SEES the HDD as a 2.7tb disk. Windows on the other hand only sees 750gb. When I switch my sata controller back to ACHI, it will read both partitions using the windows install disk, (though for some reason i cant merge them).
I've been looking but I cant find the program I used to make the disk work the first time. When I first plugged in the HDD, it was some strange file system, and i forced it to NTSF after having it scan and identify all available sectors.
I've tried a low level format, which did absolutely nothing except i'm sure delete the data I already had. Dont care it was all backed up. It still reports as 746gb.
The storage manager reports the same thing, 746 no hidden partitions.
EaseUS Partition recovery actually saw the data it had on there (it doesnt now after the format) but when i told it to recover the partition, it spent 45 minutes doing nothing, and then said there was no partitions to recover. Yeah okay.
My only conclusion is that that particular section of the HDD needs to be re-written in a format that windows will see, and to do so I need to forcibly go in and order it to be something that works, since windows outright wont acknowledge its even there.
I can post pics, though I dont know how to get pics from boot or windows install. I could just use a camera.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I've recently bumped my system over to use RAID0 SSD's, and the old backup drive that I was using which used to be an external HDD is now mis-reporting.
Its saying that its got 746gb of un allocated space.
To get this HDD to even work, I had to use a tool (of which i forgot its name, but it was quite powerful but i remember I had to run a dos box to use it) I had to go in, and re-build the part on the HDD that told the computer where everything was, then re-format it to 2048gb.
Heres the trick. Its actually a 3tb hard drive. For whatever reason, it WOULD NOT let me make more than 2tb of it visible. Had something to do with the how i re-built it.
Anyways, now that my system is Raid, the partition that had everything on it is hidden, and the 750 or so GB that was left over is now visible and able to be formatted.
"okay interesting, so how do i get the other 2gb back?"
Thats my question anyway. When I boot the system, it SEES the HDD as a 2.7tb disk. Windows on the other hand only sees 750gb. When I switch my sata controller back to ACHI, it will read both partitions using the windows install disk, (though for some reason i cant merge them).
I've been looking but I cant find the program I used to make the disk work the first time. When I first plugged in the HDD, it was some strange file system, and i forced it to NTSF after having it scan and identify all available sectors.
I've tried a low level format, which did absolutely nothing except i'm sure delete the data I already had. Dont care it was all backed up. It still reports as 746gb.
The storage manager reports the same thing, 746 no hidden partitions.
EaseUS Partition recovery actually saw the data it had on there (it doesnt now after the format) but when i told it to recover the partition, it spent 45 minutes doing nothing, and then said there was no partitions to recover. Yeah okay.
My only conclusion is that that particular section of the HDD needs to be re-written in a format that windows will see, and to do so I need to forcibly go in and order it to be something that works, since windows outright wont acknowledge its even there.
I can post pics, though I dont know how to get pics from boot or windows install. I could just use a camera.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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