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37 minutes ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I was able to partition the one that is 2 terabytes, but the other one that was 4, failed to partition. I booted windows back up to see if it worked, and sure enough it showed up as a 2 terabyte drive.

When you partitioned it, did you use MBR which has a limit of 2TB? Make sure you are using GPT instead.

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I am just installing windows on a new PC with another hard drive besides the boot SSD, I have done this before, but forgot how to do it, how do I partition it so that I can have it show up as a drive?

Please don't argue with me, I am just trying to help, or be helped. (we are all humans right?)

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It should show up as a drive regardless of partitioning, shouldn't it?

for some reason it doesn't show up as a drive!

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Just now, floppy disk mayhem said:

for some reason it doesn't show up as a drive!

In the BIOS, in Windows, or not at all?

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Sounds like quite a pickle, are you using any adapters for the SATA power? Or is the drive plugged into the wrong SATA port?

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4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

In the BIOS, in Windows, or not at all?

I checked and it's not showing up in the bios! I tried re plugging it back in and restarting it.

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1 minute ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I checked and it's not showing up in the bios! I tried re plugging it back in and restarting it.

Try different SATA ports.

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5 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Try different SATA ports.

helpful advice, let me try other things.

 

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15 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Try different SATA ports.

I tried changing sata cables and ports, but nothing showed up in windows or the BIOS!

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1 minute ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I tried changing sata cables and ports, but nothing showed up in windows or the BIOS!

Drive might be dead. Will it detect in other systems(if you any available to test)?

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Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Drive might be dead. Will it detect in other systems(if you any available to test)?

Let me check with my computer.

 

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16 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Drive might be dead. Will it detect in other systems(if you any available to test)?

I booted up the windows 10 installer from a flash drive, and it showed up! it showed up as 2 un-allocated spaces? I was able to partition the one that is 2 terabytes, but the other one that was 4, failed to partition. I booted windows back up to see if it worked, and sure enough it showed up as a 2 terabyte drive. is part of the drive broken? what has happened? 

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Just now, floppy disk mayhem said:

I booted up the windows 10 installer from a flash drive, and it showed up! it showed up as 2 un-allocated spaces? I was able to partition the one that is 2 terabytes, but the other one that was 4, failed to partition. I booted windows back up to see if it worked, and sure enough it showed up as a 2 terabyte drive. is part of the drive broken? what has happened? 

I'm honestly clueless, I've never heard of or encountered this kind of problem before.

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37 minutes ago, floppy disk mayhem said:

I was able to partition the one that is 2 terabytes, but the other one that was 4, failed to partition. I booted windows back up to see if it worked, and sure enough it showed up as a 2 terabyte drive.

When you partitioned it, did you use MBR which has a limit of 2TB? Make sure you are using GPT instead.

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17 hours ago, Spotty said:

When you partitioned it, did you use MBR which has a limit of 2TB? Make sure you are using GPT instead.

I found this out a while ago, and fixed it by turning it to GPT. thanks anyway!

Please don't argue with me, I am just trying to help, or be helped. (we are all humans right?)

 

 

 

 

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