Super Moderator WOKA Posted March 7, 2018 Super Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2018 Just trying to allocate and create a single partition on this hdd, but I can delete the second partition.. Any ideas..? Win 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 just a stab in the dark.... have you tried marking the second partition as active first, then try to delete ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extendo Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Hey mate you can try to right click on the the unallocated partition and choose extend volume then do what you need to do, give that a go. - Con Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djc Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2010/02/18/understanding-the-2-tb-limit-in-windows-storage/ You’ve hit the NTFS max 2TB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Go old school Fdisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 delete both then make a new primary partition , if the drive is not empty use partition magic to merge both partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsUrFeminitzNYImNietYoma Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Sorry I couldn't resist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator WOKA Posted March 7, 2018 Author Super Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2018 I can't access / right click or anything it.. I can only view it's properties which is useless. Fdisk doesn't exist in Win 10 I don't think..? Keep it coming, thanks.! Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Aussie Arcade mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsUrFeminitzNYImNietYoma Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Sorry looking at wrong drive. - - - Updated - - - Your drive would appear to be formatted as MBR. To use the full 4TB, it needs to be formatted as GPT. Of course, this will require a full wipe and reinstall. Very common issue. UEFI with MBR will max out around 2TB. You'll have to change the partition to GPT. Unless you have a 3rd party software to change it over, Windows will require you to reformat the drive. google "convert mbr to gpt without data loss" lots of solutions. Research, backup your disk and have at it. Make sure your BIOS can boot from GPT. Make sure your OS can boot from GPT (read this from windows) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85).aspx Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3039398/full-4tb-hdd-windows.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator WOKA Posted March 7, 2018 Author Super Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2018 Sorry looking at wrong drive. - - - Updated - - - Your drive would appear to be formatted as MBR. To use the full 4TB, it needs to be formatted as GPT. Of course, this will require a full wipe and reinstall. Very common issue. UEFI with MBR will max out around 2TB. You'll have to change the partition to GPT. Unless you have a 3rd party software to change it over, Windows will require you to reformat the drive. google "convert mbr to gpt without data loss" lots of solutions. Research, backup your disk and have at it. Make sure your BIOS can boot from GPT. Make sure your OS can boot from GPT (read this from windows) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85).aspx Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3039398/full-4tb-hdd-windows.html Its only a data drive.. I'll look into those links tomorrow. Thanks. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator WOKA Posted March 7, 2018 Author Super Moderator Share Posted March 7, 2018 success.! I used the diskpart command from an elevated Dos prompt. Thanks for the pointers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redferatu Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 success.! I used the diskpart command from an elevated Dos prompt. Thanks for the pointers.I was going to say diskpart. I had this same/similar problem 3 times within about a month working on a few of my mates computers. It took a fair amount of jacking around to find the answer at the time. Sent from my HTC 2PZF1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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