New 3tb hdd

[princedylan101]

So I got a new hdd today, but it isn't putting all 3tb into one partition. Instead there is a 2tb and a 1tb. Is there a way to merge these two?

[W-L]

Right click the one of the unallocated areas make it into a simple volume first and then right click the simple volume and there should be an option to extend volume which should merge the two together into one large partition instead.

Edited June 18, 2014 by W-L

[Vitalius]

Right click the one of the unallocated areas make it into a simple volume first and then right click the simple volume and there should be an option to extend volume which should merge the two together into one large partition instead.

This isn't the right answer. Sorry.

princedylan101 

There are two different types of Partition Tables for storage devices. One is MBR, the other is GPT. Right click the area you outlined in blue in that screenshot and click "Convert to GPT Disk". 

Do that, then just format the volume how you want it and it should be all of the space.

[princedylan101]

Right click the one of the unallocated areas and there should be an option to extend volume which should merge the two together then you can format the drive into one large partition instead.

I tried that, it wouldn't work. I had to convert the hdd to a GPT drive. That fixed it.