Formatting 3tb hard drive

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Last response: November 15, 2012 6:05 PM in Windows XP

November 15, 2012 12:42:46 PM

Hello,

I've got a 3Tb Seagate sata3 dard disk. I have downloaded the Seagate Disk Wizard & ran in on the hard Drive.
When using Disk Manager to format the Disk it shows a little over 2Tb & a little over 0.79Tb. This means two partitions on the Hard Disk.
Is it possible to acheive onr 2.8TB partition?
If so how is this acomplished using Windows XP Home Edition?
twilkin@globalskm.com

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ex_bubblehead

November 15, 2012 12:46:43 PM

You can not create a single partition >2TB on that drive. XP does not support the GPT partition type required for >2TB partitions.

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ex_bubblehead

November 15, 2012 6:05:16 PM

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charlie u don't need a wizard there r 2 thing u do with a new HDD 1 is u mount it with a drive letter, then foramt it u can set the parition at the same time put these tips in a folder data base, like chkcdk/r is error check on main cdkdskspace/r is a deep eror check take a hour :bounce:

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Rubbish.

Learn (at least) a little bit about the subject before you post.

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