Yo please help me with this 3tb drive.

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  1. Boskee
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    Yo please help me with this 3tb drive.


    I got wdc 3tb drive for christmas and it only shows ~700gb but earlier it was showing 1.99tb. wtf is going on?
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  3. DocBrown
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    Hi Boskee,


    Can you show us a snip of your disk management ?


    Start Computer Management Disk Management
    Maximize to full screen
    Take a Snip of it with the Snipping Tool, Save snip, then upload the snip here in your post.
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  4. Boskee
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    Yo please help me with this 3tb drive.-dj-turn-up-put-into-overdrive.png
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  6. DocBrown
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    Did you do the formatting of this HD? Does you computer Bios recognize Large Capacity HD's ?
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  7. Boskee
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    DocBrown said:
    Did you do the formatting of this HD? Does you computer Bios recognize Large Capacity HD's ?
    im about to upload a video. Just reinstalled windows but my user is on a different disk so it kept most of the stuff but sony vegas isn't working so sorry if it is lacking editing

    edit: dang taking so long to process
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  8. Boskee
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUmzQyxH7X0
    this is a video I made, help pls.
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  10. Boskee
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    Bump somebody please help!
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  11. pscowboy
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    Try this.

    Download GParted bootable iso, burn it to cd using Imgburn at 4x speed.

    Boot with it; click your 3tb disk; Tools- Convert partition table - Advanced - GPT - Okay when done.

    Remove the cd, boot up normally and go to Disk Management; right-click the drive to initialize as simple volume, and format it NTFS. This should give you the 3 tb.

    On another matter; you have two partitions with the active flag. That generally is not a good idea. Leave the System Reserved flag alone, but kill active on the C: partition (right click for that option).
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  12. Boskee
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    pscowboy said:
    Try this.

    Download GParted bootable iso, burn it to cd using Imgburn at 4x speed.

    Boot with it; click your 3tb disk; Tools- Convert partition table - Advanced - GPT - Okay when done.

    Remove the cd, boot up normally and go to Disk Management; right-click the drive to initialize as simple volume, and format it NTFS. This should give you the 3 tb.

    On another matter; you have two partitions with the active flag. That generally is not a good idea. Leave the System Reserved flag alone, but kill active on the C: partition (right click for that option).
    I couldn't find any such thing called tools.
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  13. pscowboy
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    My apologies; instructions were for the older version in my library of tech discs.

    Go to Device tab - Create Partition Table - Advanced - click down arrow - choose GPT.
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