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Setting up a 3.0 TB
Hi guys.
I bought a new 2.0TB Seagate expansion USB a couple of months back because my Windows XP Pro was giving problems. If you plugged a USB drive in it would be recognised even though the icon is shows in systray.
I decided to format it on Windows 7. If you right-click on the drive in Computer and select format the only option that show is basically NTFS. When I plugged it into Windows XP the icon is shows in systray but it wasn't recognised.
If you open Disk Management it shows the drive is GPT.
How come when I formatted the 3TB that didn't show GPT?
Anyway I sorted that with diskpart even with a few other thing like format it MBR and Windows XP recognises it now.
My new problem is I have a good friend who has said for a while I must get a new external USB drive. I explained my problem and I said stick to 2TB as it won't be recognised on Windows XP.
He bought a 3TB expansion USB because it wasn't much more.
I do the normal NTFS format on Windows 7. I plug it into Windows XP as normal it not recognised because its bigger than 2TB.
I've read all threads on here
Partition or Volume - Create New
Partition or Volume - Extend
Partition or Volume - Shrink
diskpart
I've done the usual many times.
diskpart
list disk
select disk {1}
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=ntfs quick
But Disk Management shows
Disk 0 - hard drive C: simple basic NTFS healthy (system, boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition)
Disk 1 - 3.0TB USB - simple basic NTFS healthy (active, primary partition)
If shows 60% of Disk 1 746.52GB Unallocated.
I've tried extend volume but that only make another part of the drive Unallocated.
I've tried shrink volume not that I want to shrink it and that makes another part of the drive Unallocated which I deleted that volume.
I know any external drive e.g. 2TB you can't use all 2TB its 1.8 but I would like this 3TB to be 2.5TB.
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.