Multiple partitions on portable HDD not recognized by Win 8

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Bastiaan Bulling

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Dear all,

I made some partitions on my portable HDD ( 2Tb) because I wanted to separate some data :

main partition
partition "PS3 backup" (300Gb)
partition "Music" (210Gb)
partition "Repair soft" (125Gb)

Now, I made the changes with EaseUs Partition Master 9.3 and it all worked out fine.
The problem is now that Win 8 doesn't see the other partitions.
In diskmgmt, they are shown, all 3 of them BUT they are outlined in green.( in the legen it states that it is an Extended Partition... now what? :)

I formated the partitions again to FAT 32, to NTFS but still nothing changed...
Please check the screenshot included for more info if I missed something.
I also did an update on the driver of the portable disk but they are up-to-date.

Can anyone please help on this? :) thanks in advance
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Reyaz123


By the way just for future reference, if you try making more than 4 partitions,
Convert it to GPT, because GPT allows you to have up to 128 partitions!
Have more questions about it, send me a pm.

Glad I could help.

-Reyaz
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Reyaz123

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Have you tried using the "shrink" option on your disk 3 (Seagate K: ) and using the unallocated space as new simple volumes?

Here's some screenshots, I tried to emulate what you tried to do and using the "shrink" option in disk management, it allowed me to make more partitions and windows notices them.

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Bastiaan Bulling

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I'll give it a try, give a minute :)
I did the shrinking using the EaseUS software, I'll try again in windows because the thing that I don't understand is as follows :

When doing the same operations on a HDD in my compute, it works,why shouldn't it work on a portable HDD? because it's detected by USB? or is it the disk format? MDR, GPT, ...?
 
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If you don't have any important data on your external at this moment, convert it to GPT if it still doesn't allow you to partition it 4 times.
 
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By the way just for future reference, if you try making more than 4 partitions,
Convert it to GPT, because GPT allows you to have up to 128 partitions!
Have more questions about it, send me a pm.

Glad I could help.

-Reyaz
 
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