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I recently had my hard drive go raw because of a virus So i i wiped it went to reformat it and i dont have majority of the capacity It doesnt show up in windows or windows partition manager. It currently only shows a third of what is actually there it shows 764gb out of 3tb.
The hard drive in question is a -Hitachi HUA723030ALA640 3tb hardrive i have checked it with crystaldiskinfo and it says its healthy. Is there anyway i can fix this and at least get most if not all of my hard drives capacity back?
 
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I've had no experience of any consequence with Linux/Ubuntu so I can't comment on any aspect involving those OS.

Again, assuming the disk in question is empty of data or at the least contains no data you need, I would suggest you invoke Diskpart, select that disk, and use the Clean command. Hopefully you will then be able to initialize the disk, partition it with the GPT scheme & format it, with the result that the full 3 TB of disk-space will be recognized by the system.
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Has the disk been partitioned MBR? If so, convert it to the GPT-partitioning scheme. (I assume the disk is devoid of data so you can carry out the conversion process in Disk Management).

It appears that some large-capacity Hitachi drives have exhibited this problem, Presumably if the drive was MBR-partitioned then, of course, the system should recognize only 2 TB of its disk-space and the remainder would be unallocated. But for some reason only 746+ GB is detected. When the disk is subsequently GPT-partitioned the entire 3 TB of disk-space is detected.

Now the preceding may not be the problem. There may be something else amiss.
 
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So i duel booted ubuntu on my primary drive i was able to detect it and format it to GPT and windows detects it now. But the problem now is in the partion editor is shows a impossibly large amount of space used on it. And when i try to reformat it in partion editor windows cannot do it. It fails every time and turns to
a unacceptable drive again.

http://imgur.com/xcN2EsJ
 
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I've had no experience of any consequence with Linux/Ubuntu so I can't comment on any aspect involving those OS.

Again, assuming the disk in question is empty of data or at the least contains no data you need, I would suggest you invoke Diskpart, select that disk, and use the Clean command. Hopefully you will then be able to initialize the disk, partition it with the GPT scheme & format it, with the result that the full 3 TB of disk-space will be recognized by the system.
 
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