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mrpolly
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I have finally finished building my FIRST PC and so far its been, well... to be honest a real drag to get everything working:/ anyway i'm now at the stage where i want to start installing my steam games, so i watched Linus' video on how to partition a hdd as the storage and the ssd as the boot drive, after doing all of the steps i have encountered a problem.As you can see,post-220573-0-71800800-1431641573_thumb. my 3Tb hard drive has been split into 3 sections, how do i turn it into one? because otherwise i'm loosing 800Gig :(

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I have finally finished building my FIRST PC and so far its been, well... to be honest a real drag to get everything working:/ anyway i'm now at the stage where i want to start installing my steam games, so i watched Linus' video on how to partition a hdd as the storage and the ssd as the boot drive, after doing all of the steps i have encountered a problem.As you can see,attachicon.gif3tb broken.jpg my 3Tb hard drive has been split into 3 sections, how do i turn it into one? because otherwise i'm loosing 800Gig :(

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It appears that Windows has installed the 100MB "System Reserved" partition onto the HDD instead of the SSD.

Because of this it had to format the 3TB HDD as MBR, which only supports partitions up to 2TB.

You may be able to fix this without reinstalling Windows, but it will probably be difficult. A fresh install is definitely the best option here, just make sure that you only have the SSD connected when installing Windows so that both Windows partitions are installed there.

I hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

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It appears that Windows has installed the 100MB "System Reserved" partition onto the HDD instead of the SSD.

Because of this it had to format the 3TB HDD as MBR, which only supports partitions up to 2TB.

You may be able to fix this without reinstalling Windows, but it will probably be difficult. A fresh install is definitely the best option here, just make sure that you only have the SSD connected when installing Windows so that both Windows partitions are installed there.

I hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

i'll give it a go, thanks

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