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One may or one may not agree with the views expressed by somebody else, but not agreeing does not confer the right to use unparliamentary and intemperate language.
One may or one may not agree with the views expressed by somebody else, but not agreeing does not confer the right to use unparliamentary and intemperate language.
It shouldn't have come with any partitions or divided spaces(unallocated) even but found "raw" totally unpartitioned being a new drive.
I think karksnooks may have touched on something as far as bios limitations depending on how old the system or board is. The LBA option seen on the old boards was a requirement for drives over a certain size. Otherwise the only partitions you would end up with would be limited in size from the start.
The make and model board would be the best help here for solving this as far as age and bios limitations as well as going into the bios setup to see if the LBA or Logical Block Addressing option is found to see that enabled.
The make and model board would still be a help however for looking up the user manual for the board itself.
Thanks KLEBESTIFT that worked perfectly.
I bought a hard drive multi dock thing, and tried to transfer my old external hard drives into it.
I discovered that for some reason, the external hard drive controller has the hard drive partitioned into three parts that read as one when in the external case, but as soon as you try to plug the drives into the computer directly, or through the 4 hard drive dock, it becomes three unusable partitions again.
I now have it operating as I wished thanks to your post.
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Hi
Your hard drive is using the MBR format and the maximum partition size for this is 2TB. If you want to use the whole disk size you must change it to the GPT format to be able increase the partition size more than 2TB.
if you like to convert it to GPT , check this out:
Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk