Posted February 15, 2020 I have a WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0 4 tb harddrive but only 2tb can be allocated?? the options to allocate the 2tb are blank https://i.gyazo.com/c0073cbc35ca8e81f6aaf3cac5875c34.mp4 Gif of it being blanked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Maybe there is another partition already? Or you got scammed and it's 2 TB drive not 4... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 How did you format/init the drive? As MBR or GPT? Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 How is it formatted? AMD Ryzen 5800X| Fractal Design S36 360 AIO w/6 Corsair SP120L fans | Asus Crosshair VII WiFi X470 | G.SKILL TridentZ 4400CL19 2x8GB @ 3800MHz 14-14-14-14-30 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Hybrid | Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB - Boot Drive | Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB - Game Drive | Seagate 1TB HDD - Media Drive | EVGA 650 G3 PSU | Thermaltake Core P3 Case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Right right, what these guys said, MBR has the size limit of 2.2 TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 You likely have your drive initialized as MBR, which only supports up to 2TB. Need to switch to GPT. F@H Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED GPD Win 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Problem is that is also blanked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author It is mbr so thats good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author But the button to convert it to gpt is blanked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, Smashyalts said: But the button to convert it to gpt is blanked out Delete the partitions on the drive and try to reinitialize it as GPT Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Diskpart is fucking up??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Posted February 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, yaboistar said: try this. if it comes back with error messages then try to use the "override" command modifier (convert gpt override) if it will allow you to do so. that usually bypasses most warnings and the system protesting about "you can't do this" Also, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt Non-destructive method. AMD Ryzen 5800X| Fractal Design S36 360 AIO w/6 Corsair SP120L fans | Asus Crosshair VII WiFi X470 | G.SKILL TridentZ 4400CL19 2x8GB @ 3800MHz 14-14-14-14-30 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Hybrid | Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB - Boot Drive | Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB - Game Drive | Seagate 1TB HDD - Media Drive | EVGA 650 G3 PSU | Thermaltake Core P3 Case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Why is my diskpart showing wrong free space??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Do i need to turn both my Boot drive and my 4tb harddrive to gpt?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, Smashyalts said: Why is my diskpart showing wrong free space??? You mean why is it not showing 4TB exactly? Because Microsoft does things weird and while it's actually 4TB of space that converts to ~3.7TiB (Tibibytes) and there are other factors like some reserved space iirc Is that before or after you created a partition on the drive? Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Not that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Just now, Smashyalts said: Not that Yah, I realized that afterwards. Is that before or after you created a partition on Disk1? Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 15, 2020 Author Havn´t done anything because i got scared by that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 16, 2020 select disk 1 clean convert gpt CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY if DISKPART shows free space as 0, means it's all allocated already. You should be able to format the whole thing as NTFS now and see full capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 16, 2020 Author Do i need to do it with my boot drive or only the drive i have 4 tb on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 16, 2020 Only the 4TB drive. F@H Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED GPD Win 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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