unallocated Hard drive

[jdragon9949]

I have a 3tb hard drive as my second hard drive. But im having a problem with it it says i have 2k TB of it thats allocated. The theres 746.52 tn that is unallocated idk how to make it allocated when i click on it all it gives me is proportys and help witch dosnt really help me much

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

You're hitting the 2TB partition limit for MBR partitions. To have Windows recognize more, you would need to switch to a GPT partition. If you don't have any data on that 3TB hard drive, it should be easy enough.

See Microsoft's article here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408) for more info.

 

[sunder25]

Go to windows disk management(if it's windows 7 just type disk management in start)
There you should find a schematic of your current hard drive status.
What you can do is rightclick the unallocated part, and select new simple volume, follow the instructions from there.
This will create a new partition and allow you to use the space.
Another thing yo can do is extend another partition with the unallocated space.(by right clicking an existing partition)

 

[sunder25]

You're hitting the 2TB partition limit for MBR partitions. To have Windows recognize more, you would need to switch to a GPT partition. If you don't have any data on that 3TB hard drive, it should be easy enough.

See Microsoft's article here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581408) for more info.

Crikey! forgot about that limit.