troubleshooting SSD Partitions

[The_Guy]

Hi, my PC has just gotten a storage upgrade, getting 2 new 4tb HDD and a Samsung 870 QVO 4tb SSD as a boot drive. Computer was getting slow so full reset and fresh windows install. Both HDD have installed correctly and been partitioned but during the installation process, windows partitioned half the SSD to the OS and now the windows 'Extend Volume Wizard' won't let me allocate or use the remaining 2 tb. Any solutions or ideas

[Electronics Wizardy]

What hardware is this?

 

That drive is setup as MBR, you need the GPT partition table to have a >2TiB partition. You need EFI boot to have GPT on a boot drive, does your system support that? I'd probably reinstall with EFI and you can use the fulls space.

[Killjoy_NS]

On 10/19/2023 at 10:37 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

What hardware is this?

 

That drive is setup as MBR, you need the GPT partition table to have a >2TiB partition. You need EFI boot to have GPT on a boot drive, does your system support that? I'd probably reinstall with EFI and you can use the fulls space.

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