Fukengroovin
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I am using a brand new Toshiba U505 laptop with eSata port. I purchased a StarTech dual bay external case (SAT3520U2ER) which boasts that you can use 2TB drives x 2 for a total capacity of 4TB. The drives are a pair of Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200 RPM units. The supplied software GUI recognizes each drive as 2TB (4TB total), but Windows 7 does not.
3.5in Silver eSATA USB Dual SATA External RAID Hard Drive Enclosure - StarTech.com
I am trying to utilize this 4TB enclosure as one giant drive so I have set things to BIG mode to achieve 1 drive letter showing 4TB.
Windows 7 disk management shows the drive as only 2TB. I have already changed the partition type to GPT and still it shows 2TB.
What am I missing?
3.5in Silver eSATA USB Dual SATA External RAID Hard Drive Enclosure - StarTech.com
I am trying to utilize this 4TB enclosure as one giant drive so I have set things to BIG mode to achieve 1 drive letter showing 4TB.
Windows 7 disk management shows the drive as only 2TB. I have already changed the partition type to GPT and still it shows 2TB.
What am I missing?
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My Computer
At a glance
7Intel Core I34GBIntel Shared
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Toshiba U505-S2005
- OS
- 7
- CPU
- Intel Core I3
- Motherboard
- ???
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel Shared
- Monitor(s) Displays
- External Viewsonic 22"
- Hard Drives
- 500GB internal 2.5
WD 1TB external USB portable
Hitachi 2TB x 2 inside a Star-Tech dual drive enclosure
