Solved Cannot allocate my 3tb hard drive

[monster528]

I have a 3th hard drive, but windows isnt allowing me to allocate more than 2tb to the partition. Im not sure why or how to bypass this

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm no expert but I did find one. This is Brinks tutorial that should give you the information you need.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.html

 

[jumanji]

Delete all partitions on that 3TB drive (after copying any data on it to another drive), initialise your disk as GPT , create volumes and format. More than 2TB HDDs need to be GPT drives. MBR disks can see only 2 TB which is the limit.

 

[monster528]

that worked! thank you so much guys. one more thing i learned today