how do i format a hard drive to a 2 t when it is only showing 250 gb

Lyndy

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I created a system image that was on a 250 gb harddrive... The drive I put it on was 2T. It formatted the hd and now it only reads as250 gb... How do I get it back to 2T. It doesn't matter if I have to reformat the drive.. Thanks
 

viewtyjoe

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I'm slightly confused. You state you created a system image on a 250 GB hard drive, but then state that the drive you put it on was a 2 TB hard drive. If the image is on a 2 TB hard drive and you didn't allocate the rest of the space, then you should be able to use Disk Management, or a similar utility depending on OS, to allocate the unused space as a separate partition or expand the existing 250 GB partition to fill the 2 TB, minus whatever is needed for journaling, MBR, etc.