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What happened was I took apart a working external hdd when I put it into the computer and in the sata port it says there are 2x unallocated partitions one partition has 2048gb and I can make a new volume with it but the second partition is 746.52gb and I can't do anything with it.

It seemed to work fine any time I unplug it from the pc and put it back in the enclosure
 
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Then there is some hardware in the enclosure to make the drive work with your system. Just use it in the enclosure if it works there and get a bare internal drive and check your motherboard manual about any size limitations. I got a 3 TB external drive that would not work in my older system, worked fine in the enclosure though.
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Not all computers can work with a drive over a specific size on the SATA ports, but will with the enclosure. If you don't mind taking a chance at the drive not working at all even in the enclosure, you can use diskpart to fully wipe the drive of all partitions then try to create a new one using disk manager.
 
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Then there is some hardware in the enclosure to make the drive work with your system. Just use it in the enclosure if it works there and get a bare internal drive and check your motherboard manual about any size limitations. I got a 3 TB external drive that would not work in my older system, worked fine in the enclosure though.
 
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