RAW area was about 582GB. The other were 1.4TB and 2.6TB each.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?482053-gt-2TB-HDD-Issue
I recently bought a 5TB Seagate external USB 3.0 hard drive.
The external version was on sale, and I bought it planning to pop out the hard drive and install it in my computer as an internal drive.
Connected using the external USB enclosure, it works fine on my Windows 7 x64 machine with the full capacity.
It is partitioned with a basic MBR and formatted with NTFS for a total storage space of about 4.6TB.
Solved my problem.
This is a helpful read...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/23508...rd-drives.html
"You can use the full capacity of a 3TB drive via USB--with a drive enclosure that supports it. The SATA-to-USB bridge chip inside the enclosure takes care of any addressing issues. This is why the first 3TB drive shipped last summer as an external model--a switch from the usual pattern of internal units shipping first."
In Short: Apparently my external enclosure was converting everything on the fly so Windows could access the drive normally.
Lesson Learned: If you're going to take an external drive out of its enclosure and put it into your computer, do all the setting up AFTER its in the computer.
Bottom Line: Don't bother partitioning, formatting, BitLocking or copying data to it before you put it in!
I recently bought a 5TB Seagate external USB 3.0 hard drive.
The external version was on sale, and I bought it planning to pop out the hard drive and install it in my computer as an internal drive.
Connected using the external USB enclosure, it works fine on my Windows 7 x64 machine with the full capacity.
It is partitioned with a basic MBR and formatted with NTFS for a total storage space of about 4.6TB.
Solved my problem.
This is a helpful read...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/23508...rd-drives.html
"You can use the full capacity of a 3TB drive via USB--with a drive enclosure that supports it. The SATA-to-USB bridge chip inside the enclosure takes care of any addressing issues. This is why the first 3TB drive shipped last summer as an external model--a switch from the usual pattern of internal units shipping first."
In Short: Apparently my external enclosure was converting everything on the fly so Windows could access the drive normally.
Lesson Learned: If you're going to take an external drive out of its enclosure and put it into your computer, do all the setting up AFTER its in the computer.
Bottom Line: Don't bother partitioning, formatting, BitLocking or copying data to it before you put it in!
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