- Jul 31, 2013
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So while attempting to split my hard drive up into volumes so that I could have both an NTFS and an exFAT volume, I set aside a portion of the drive space (rougly 20gigs of space). When I did this, the system would not allow me to actually turn this into a simple drive to format, so I figured I would recombine the two, but much to my chargin the system would not let me extend the original volume. Frustrated, I moved everything off the external and formatted the drive. Except when it formatted it, it wound up splitting the drive into two roughly equal sized volumes. It still will not allow me to combine these two, and while I can fully format half the drive, the other half appears to be untouchable.
I've tried quick formatting, slow formatting, formatting, and when I try to shrink volume again it makes a third volume that is capable of doing everything I'd hoped the first split volume could do (up to and including recombining it with the original volume).
I'm stumped on how to combine all of this back together again and any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://i.imgur.com/pVEsqXb.jpg This is what I'm currently looking at. Any and all help is appreciated!
Update: While messing around, I found I could convert the entire disk to GPT. This combined the volumes and I once more have my a single volume for the external hard drive. I don't actually know the difference between a GPT, MBR, and Dynamic Disk though, so could somebody tell me which of these I should set it to before formatting the entire thing and starting to store files, pictures, and movies on it once again?
I've tried quick formatting, slow formatting, formatting, and when I try to shrink volume again it makes a third volume that is capable of doing everything I'd hoped the first split volume could do (up to and including recombining it with the original volume).
I'm stumped on how to combine all of this back together again and any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://i.imgur.com/pVEsqXb.jpg This is what I'm currently looking at. Any and all help is appreciated!
Update: While messing around, I found I could convert the entire disk to GPT. This combined the volumes and I once more have my a single volume for the external hard drive. I don't actually know the difference between a GPT, MBR, and Dynamic Disk though, so could somebody tell me which of these I should set it to before formatting the entire thing and starting to store files, pictures, and movies on it once again?
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