Hello,
Yesterday I got a new 3tb external hdd that i planned on using as an internal.
I unboxed it and plug it in still enclosed to just check it out, came up as 2.7 tb, which is what i was expecting.
I removed it from the enclosure, plug it via sata to my mobo, turned the pc back on. It said the new drive had to be formatted, kinda odd, but i did it anyway
It then was only showing 349 GBs, went into disk management to check it out. It had for some reason split it into 3 different partitions i guess. One 349, one 1700ish, one 700ish.
I undid the partitions and reformated again, only this time i could only make one 2tb partition, theres still 700 gigs it wont let me do anything with. i can right click it but i cant select anything.
What did I do, and how can i fix it? running windows 7 64bt
Thanks for any help
Yesterday I got a new 3tb external hdd that i planned on using as an internal.
I unboxed it and plug it in still enclosed to just check it out, came up as 2.7 tb, which is what i was expecting.
I removed it from the enclosure, plug it via sata to my mobo, turned the pc back on. It said the new drive had to be formatted, kinda odd, but i did it anyway
It then was only showing 349 GBs, went into disk management to check it out. It had for some reason split it into 3 different partitions i guess. One 349, one 1700ish, one 700ish.
I undid the partitions and reformated again, only this time i could only make one 2tb partition, theres still 700 gigs it wont let me do anything with. i can right click it but i cant select anything.
What did I do, and how can i fix it? running windows 7 64bt
Thanks for any help