Hard Drive Trobleshooting

[Tylerebowers]

I cant partition the other 1/3 of the hdd

I think it is because it has the System reserved partition

it is disk 0 

 

[Damocles]

Well I know a fix but before I tell you, is there anything important on that drive? I'm referring to all partitions on that specific drive you're having issues with

[brodieslee]

Have you tried putting it in RAID 0 with the E: drive? If you have, try installing ubuntu on it or something to make sure it isn't just corrupted data.

[Damocles]

1 minute ago, brodieslee said:

Have you tried putting it in RAID 0 with the E: drive? If you have, try installing ubuntu on it or something to make sure it isn't just corrupted data.

Oh yeah by all means, go install an entire operating system on it to check if it's corrupted as opposed to right clicking it and scan for errors like a normal person would

[Tylerebowers]

50 minutes ago, Damocles said:

Oh yeah by all means, go install an entire operating system on it to check if it's corrupted as opposed to right clicking it and scan for errors like a normal person would

I have 600 GB of data on it

[Tylerebowers]

53 minutes ago, brodieslee said:

Have you tried putting it in RAID 0 with the E: drive? If you have, try installing ubuntu on it or something to make sure it isn't just corrupted data.

how do you put it in raid 0

[Damocles]

3 minutes ago, Tyleredbowers said:

I have 600 GB of data on it

How do you have 600Gb of data on a drive only giving you 431.51 GB to use?

[Tylerebowers]

1 minute ago, Damocles said:

How do you have 600Gb of data on a drive only giving you 431.51 GB to use?

 wrong drive it is disk 0 or the 3tb one

The e drive 

[Damocles]

Also, if it's not in RAID to begin with, putting it into RAID will erase all data. So don't listen to him

[Tylerebowers]

Just now, Damocles said:

Also, if it's not in RAID to begin with, putting it into RAID will erase all data. So don't listen to him

ok

 

[Tylerebowers]

my problem is that i cant create a new volume on the 746.52 GB of data on disk 0

[Damocles]

Alright run CMD as admin and manually do this. Type in "diskpart" then "list vol", look for the volume that is 745.52 GB in size and remember that number. Type in "sel vol X" where X is the number you took. "assign letter Z" where Z can be any unused drive letter

[Tylerebowers]

14 hours ago, Damocles said:

Alright run CMD as admin and manually do this. Type in "diskpart" then "list vol", look for the volume that is 745.52 GB in size and remember that number. Type in "sel vol X" where X is the number you took. "assign letter Z" where Z can be any unused drive letter

I will try that

[Tylerebowers]

14 hours ago, Damocles said:

Alright run CMD as admin and manually do this. Type in "diskpart" then "list vol", look for the volume that is 745.52 GB in size and remember that number. Type in "sel vol X" where X is the number you took. "assign letter Z" where Z can be any unused drive letter

it doesn't show up

[Tylerebowers]

found this

I just bought a 4T HD and It has one partition and another part with unallocated space.. I can't create one partition for some reason.. I have tried partition manager and partition magic and no lock what can I do to turn this hd into just one partition??

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ac103GStorage

December 13, 2013 3:48:15 PM

 

To create a partition of larger than 2 TB the drive needs to use a GPT partition table. What version of Windows are you running? If this is to be used as a storage drive, look for the option "convert to GPT disk" then delete the current partition and create a new one.

[Damocles]

7 hours ago, Tyleredbowers said:

found this

I just bought a 4T HD and It has one partition and another part with unallocated space.. I can't create one partition for some reason.. I have tried partition manager and partition magic and no lock what can I do to turn this hd into just one partition??

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ac103GStorage

December 13, 2013 3:48:15 PM

 

To create a partition of larger than 2 TB the drive needs to use a GPT partition table. What version of Windows are you running? If this is to be used as a storage drive, look for the option "convert to GPT disk" then delete the current partition and create a new one.

You're right, he's probably using MBR right now, but that doesn't explain why the partition won't show up in CMD. To be honest though...

 

7 hours ago, Tyleredbowers said:

it doesn't show up

I can't see sh1t! What did you screen cap this on? A freaking 99999k Monitor? That's so small Intel's 14nm process is jealous. Anyways, I think there's a program to convert MBR to GPT for system disks as I don't believe you can just convert it through windows if it's a system drive. Try EaseUs Partition Master, It works well and the interface is easy to use. Might need to pay however, so unless you wanna reinstall windows and lose your data, you'd have to Cough***Rough***Augh***Cough***Kugmm... Excuse me... pay for it

[Damocles]

NVM it's not the system drive right? But for anyone else out there who's having this issue on their C: drive, there is still a fix

[Tylerebowers]

14 minutes ago, Damocles said:

You're right, he's probably using MBR right now, but that doesn't explain why the partition won't show up in CMD. To be honest though...

 

I can't see sh1t! What did you screen cap this on? A freaking 99999k Monitor? That's so small Intel's 14nm process is jealous. Anyways, I think there's a program to convert MBR to GPT for system disks as I don't believe you can just convert it through windows if it's a system drive. Try EaseUs Partition Master, It works well and the interface is easy to use. Might need to pay however, so unless you wanna reinstall windows and lose your data, you'd have to Cough***Rough***Augh***Cough***Kugmm... Excuse me... pay for it

 it is a 1080p monitor I am getting this one soon https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Gaming-S2716DG-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B0149QBOF0

and I did buy windows and I have the sticker But it didn't work (I paid full price)