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Windows 7 - 2.5 TB External Hard Drive Partition
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| 07-05-2011 | #1 |
| | 2.5 TB External Hard Drive Partition Hello, I have windows 7 home premium 32 bit. I got a new WD Elements 2.5 TB external hard drive. The laptop detected it perfectly and it showed about ~2.25 TB space. The problem came when I tried to partition it into two partition, one 1.75 TB and other ~500 GB. I tried windows 7 data management. When I shrunk the volume to make first 1.7 TB partition it made it correctly but it created two ~250 GB un-allocated partitions. Then I created one partition from first un-allocated space and tried to extend it but it is not giving me an option to extend it. Also it is not allowing me to create another partition from remaining ~250 GB partition. I tried EASEUS partition manager but it shows whole external hard drive as unsupported. Can anyone help me with it please? Regards, Alex |
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| 07-05-2011 | #2 |
| | paragon software's partition manager is the only one I know of that handles usb externals properly. |
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| 07-05-2011 | #3 |
| | Thanks for reply. But is there any other way? (Free may be?) |
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| 07-05-2011 | #4 |
| Xp Pro SP3 x64, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz) | Maybe Partition Wizard (Freeware)  Free Download Magic Partition Manager Software - Partition Wizard Online |
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| 07-08-2011 | #5 |
| | Hello everyone, Thanks for your replies. I tried both of them but still not able to use that unallocated space. Is it something that I can not use more than 2Tb in a 32 bit system? (I am just guessing, but i was able to detect ~2.25TB when I used it for the first time.) Is there anything I can do about it? Is it a bad-sector problem? Regards, Alex |
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| 07-08-2011 | #6 |
| | I just added a screenshot of disk management.. |
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