- Sep 16, 2014
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I have installed a new 3TB Toshiba hard drive in my homebuilt computer. I'm running Win 8.1.
I made the mistake of putting the drive in an external enclosure to try and clone it before swapping it for an older internal drive. The enclosure seems to have configured the disk into:
2048GB Healthy (GPT Protective Partition) and 746.52GB Unallocated.
I've read extensively on here about enclosures and what they can do, sometimes making GPT impossible. After Macrium Reflect told me it couldn't clone via USB, I installed the hard drive internally. It shows up as described above, but Windows hasn't assigned a drive letter, and there's not a single thing I can do to either partition. The smaller, unallocated partition will let me see properties (the 2TB partition won't), but that's it. Everything else is greyed out.
I can't format, can't delete, can't allocate, can't resize, can't seem to do anything. Is there any solution to this? Or do I need to return the disk?
I made the mistake of putting the drive in an external enclosure to try and clone it before swapping it for an older internal drive. The enclosure seems to have configured the disk into:
2048GB Healthy (GPT Protective Partition) and 746.52GB Unallocated.
I've read extensively on here about enclosures and what they can do, sometimes making GPT impossible. After Macrium Reflect told me it couldn't clone via USB, I installed the hard drive internally. It shows up as described above, but Windows hasn't assigned a drive letter, and there's not a single thing I can do to either partition. The smaller, unallocated partition will let me see properties (the 2TB partition won't), but that's it. Everything else is greyed out.
I can't format, can't delete, can't allocate, can't resize, can't seem to do anything. Is there any solution to this? Or do I need to return the disk?
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