Bought 2 new hard drives the other day. 1x 120GB SSD, which is the device I boot the OS from. 1x 3 TB Seagate HDD. It's not working quite properly.
Before you ask, my mobo (msi 9 series.. 970a-g46) can technically support a physical volume of 3tb +
Upon inserting the 3 TB and starting the computer, I found the device not listed within the Computer directory. So I did some digging, and found that I would likely have to allocate the volume from the windows disk management tool (or a variety of third party tools)
By default, my device is listed as a 2 TB partition, a 750 GB partition, and a small partition of 100mb or so.
I was able to allocate the 2 TB as z drive, formatted with NTFS and all appears to work fine, However all options (create simple partition, extend, format etc) are grey'd out when I right click on the third partition within the volume, from disk management. The option to extend the 2 TB partition into the secondary 750 GB did not become available either upon deleting the 2 TB volume and attempting to integrate the partitions from the beginning.
I would very much like to have it partitioned, in fact, in two 1 TB partitions and 1 750 GB partition that I might use for a restore point of sorts until I happen upon a tertiary storage device.
Before you ask, my mobo (msi 9 series.. 970a-g46) can technically support a physical volume of 3tb +
Upon inserting the 3 TB and starting the computer, I found the device not listed within the Computer directory. So I did some digging, and found that I would likely have to allocate the volume from the windows disk management tool (or a variety of third party tools)
By default, my device is listed as a 2 TB partition, a 750 GB partition, and a small partition of 100mb or so.
I was able to allocate the 2 TB as z drive, formatted with NTFS and all appears to work fine, However all options (create simple partition, extend, format etc) are grey'd out when I right click on the third partition within the volume, from disk management. The option to extend the 2 TB partition into the secondary 750 GB did not become available either upon deleting the 2 TB volume and attempting to integrate the partitions from the beginning.
I would very much like to have it partitioned, in fact, in two 1 TB partitions and 1 750 GB partition that I might use for a restore point of sorts until I happen upon a tertiary storage device.
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