Little help installing HDD plz

[mingimonkey]

Alright so I have a 4tb seagate barracuda and I installed it correctly and everything.Also its showing up on Disk management but it will only let me do half of the hd and not the whole thing together. Also when I try to create a new simple volume for it that doesn't work either.

[Theguywhobea]

I'm sure someone else will correct me, but I think 2TB is the largest that NTFS can go? You might need to format it with some other system to make a volume larger than 2TB.

[dragoon20005]

for 4TB HDDs use GPT

 

NTFS are good for 2TB HDDs

[mingimonkey]

4 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

for 4TB HDDs use GPT

 

NTFS are good for 2TB HDDs

Sorry never mind I got it thanks though

Edited December 7, 2017 by mingimonkey
I got it

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, mingimonkey said:

 

do you know how to change it to GPT because I think I already chose NTFS when I first opened the program?

If I'm not mistaken you can just delete the partition you made and re-do it as GPT from there.

[Oshino Shinobu]

10 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

I'm sure someone else will correct me, but I think 2TB is the largest that NTFS can go? You might need to format it with some other system to make a volume larger than 2TB.

 

9 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

for 4TB HDDs use GPT

 

NTFS are good for 2TB HDDs

NTFS is fine for larger than 2TB, you're thinking of MBR, which is superseded by GPT. You can have a GPT drive that uses the NTFS file system. In fact, that's what the vast majority of Windows UEFI systems will use.

 

7 minutes ago, mingimonkey said:

 

do you know how to change it to GPT because I think I already chose NTFS when I first opened the program?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671(v=ws.11).aspx

 

EDIT: MBR and GPT are partition tables, NTFS is a file system, it's not a one or the other thing, you can use the NTFS file system on both MBR and GPT drives. MBR should only be used for legacy BIOS support. Anything fairly modern will use UEFI and GPT, which allows for more than 4 partitions on a drive and for drives greater than 2TB, while MBR does not. NTFS can work on drives over 2TB just fine. 

[dragoon20005]

5 minutes ago, mingimonkey said:

 

do you know how to change it to GPT because I think I already chose NTFS when I first opened the program?

right click on the drive

 

click convert to GPT

 

[dragoon20005]

4 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

 

NTFS is fine for larger than 2TB, you're thinking of MBR, which is superseded by GPT. You can have a GPT drive that uses the NTFS file system.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671(v=ws.11).aspx

oops ya i got confused with MBR