WD SATA 6T install problem
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johnnyb105
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Did you install windows 7 on the drive? Also you can go to wd site and download there software for 3TB and above...
The Original Ralph
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there's your problem - go into disk management, in the grey box to the left of the long rectangular box where the drive's volumes are listed, right clik and select "GPT" - a MBR partitioned disk will not recognize more than 2 TB
again, to be clear, i'm not talking about right clikking on the partition, but the entire disk
The Original Ralph
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then you'll have to delete the 2 TB partition - iirc, right clik over the active partition and select "delete volume"
then you'll be able to select GPT, and then you'll have full access to the entire disk volume
btw, when you delete that volume or partition, you'll loose all data from it so be sure to copy to another drive
then you'll be able to select GPT, and then you'll have full access to the entire disk volume
btw, when you delete that volume or partition, you'll loose all data from it so be sure to copy to another drive
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