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I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al |
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Allen Drake wrote:
I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. -- Crash "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." ~ Samuel Johnson ~ |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy"
wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. This is a spare drive that shows in disk management as two partitions. One is active and shows as 2048.00 GB and healthy(primary partition) there is an unallocated 746.52 GB. I want to restore this to a 3TB drive that is one partition and healthy. I have found no way to do this in disk management that I understand. If I right click and format it only formats as the 2TB. If I right click on the 746 GB unallocated part I can do nothing. |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy"
wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. BTW Extend volume is grayed out. |
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Allen Drake wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. BTW Extend volume is grayed out. Okay. I have no experience with drives that big. You apparently have run up against a partition size limit. Watch for wrap: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/a...s-storage.aspx -- Crash "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." ~ Arnold H. Glasow ~ |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:02:28 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy"
wrote: Allen Drake wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. BTW Extend volume is grayed out. Okay. I have no experience with drives that big. You apparently have run up against a partition size limit. Watch for wrap: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/a...s-storage.aspx Do you have an understanding of diskpart commands? |
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On 26/05/2012 8:31 AM, Allen Drake wrote:
This is a spare drive that shows in disk management as two partitions. One is active and shows as 2048.00 GB and healthy(primary partition) there is an unallocated 746.52 GB. I want to restore this to a 3TB drive that is one partition and healthy. I have found no way to do this in disk management that I understand. If I right click and format it only formats as the 2TB. If I right click on the 746 GB unallocated part I can do nothing. "Unallocated" means there is no partition there, just empty sectors. In theory, you should be able to either create a new partition in the unallocated space, or to extend the primary partition. In a follow-up, you say that "Extend..." is greyed out. This indicates problem(s) that I speculate cannot be resolved without a complete reformatting of the whole disk. Just a guess. IMO, that leaves only the option of creating another partition. Try it. If that doesn't work, you'll need more help than I can give you. Good luck, Wolf K. PS: here's a simplified account of "partition" etc: A "partition" is a list of tracks and sectors available for use. Its structure depends on the "file system". A file system is a method of listing and allocating tracks and sectors to partitions, folders, and files. When you "format a disk", the OS writes file-system information onto the disk. When you "create a partition", the OS writes relevant data onto the HDD. File system and partition data are stored in the Master Boot Record for the HDD, along with boot data for the OS. Each partition includes an automatically generated default file that lists the files and folders in that partition. The necessary bookkeeping could be done entirely by the HDD itself, without any OS involvement, but for many different reasons, OS involvement is preferred. One consequence is the kind of problem you're facing. For historical reasons, Windows displays partitions as disks, which can be confusing. WEK |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:10:31 -0400, Wolf K
wrote: On 26/05/2012 8:31 AM, Allen Drake wrote: This is a spare drive that shows in disk management as two partitions. One is active and shows as 2048.00 GB and healthy(primary partition) there is an unallocated 746.52 GB. I want to restore this to a 3TB drive that is one partition and healthy. I have found no way to do this in disk management that I understand. If I right click and format it only formats as the 2TB. If I right click on the 746 GB unallocated part I can do nothing. "Unallocated" means there is no partition there, just empty sectors. In theory, you should be able to either create a new partition in the unallocated space, or to extend the primary partition. In a follow-up, you say that "Extend..." is greyed out. This indicates problem(s) that I speculate cannot be resolved without a complete reformatting of the whole disk. Just a guess. IMO, that leaves only the option of creating another partition. Try it. If that doesn't work, you'll need more help than I can give you. Good luck, Wolf K. PS: here's a simplified account of "partition" etc: A "partition" is a list of tracks and sectors available for use. Its structure depends on the "file system". A file system is a method of listing and allocating tracks and sectors to partitions, folders, and files. When you "format a disk", the OS writes file-system information onto the disk. When you "create a partition", the OS writes relevant data onto the HDD. File system and partition data are stored in the Master Boot Record for the HDD, along with boot data for the OS. Each partition includes an automatically generated default file that lists the files and folders in that partition. The necessary bookkeeping could be done entirely by the HDD itself, without any OS involvement, but for many different reasons, OS involvement is preferred. One consequence is the kind of problem you're facing. For historical reasons, Windows displays partitions as disks, which can be confusing. WEK I tried deleting the partition and creating a new one but that only gets me back to the original problem. I have found links to information on using drives over 2TB with Win7 so I have some reading to do. I have an external 3TB USB 3 drive that works fine so I may just use it that way for now but my curiosity will get the best of me and I will eventually find out what needs to be known. Thanks. Al |
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Allen Drake wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:02:28 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. BTW Extend volume is grayed out. Okay. I have no experience with drives that big. You apparently have run up against a partition size limit. Watch for wrap: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/a...s-storage.aspx Do you have an understanding of diskpart commands? I know what they are, but I have never used them. I think they will have the same limitations as the GUI manager, including the 2 TB limit. Give it a try. Since you don't care about saving data, you can't hurt anything. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...(v=ws.10).aspx -- Crash Atheism is a matter of faith, too. |
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On 5/26/2012 5:47 AM, Allen Drake wrote:
I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al Try giving the free (for home use) program EasUS Partition Master. Here is a link for information on the program http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm You can download the free home edition at: http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm At the worst it should be able to delete all partitions found on the drive and create one large partition for you. |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:33:24 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy"
wrote: Allen Drake wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:02:28 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2012 07:52:56 -0400, "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" wrote: Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. I'm fuzzy on the circumstances. If it is not the active operating system, you can do what you want with Windows Disk Management (StartProgramsAdministrative ToolsDisk Management). If you want to preserve the data on the disk, resize the partition to use the whole disk (Right clickExtend volume). If you don't care about saving the data, you can alternately delete the partition and create a new one, using the whole disk. If the partition in question is the active operating system, you will have to use a third party partitioning program. There are several free ones available. BTW Extend volume is grayed out. Okay. I have no experience with drives that big. You apparently have run up against a partition size limit. Watch for wrap: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/a...s-storage.aspx Do you have an understanding of diskpart commands? I know what they are, but I have never used them. I think they will have the same limitations as the GUI manager, including the 2 TB limit. Give it a try. Since you don't care about saving data, you can't hurt anything. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...(v=ws.10).aspx Oh, I tried but I am having a hard time understanding what all that means. The syntax and all. It might just be simpler to use this drive in my USB cradle as it's just a file backup anyway. I tried the format command where I types Diskpart and then select disk 3 then I can't understand the format procedure. I type help format and enter everything that it says and that is where it ends. Try try again............ |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:05:52 -0500, GlowingBlueMist
wrote: On 5/26/2012 5:47 AM, Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al Try giving the free (for home use) program EasUS Partition Master. Here is a link for information on the program http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm You can download the free home edition at: http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm At the worst it should be able to delete all partitions found on the drive and create one large partition for you. Ya, I saw that app but I always hesitate to download things that don't come recommended personally. I never really know what I might get. Iv 'e thought of partition magic also so maybe I will do something like that. |
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On 5/26/2012 10:12 AM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:05:52 -0500, GlowingBlueMist wrote: On 5/26/2012 5:47 AM, Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al Try giving the free (for home use) program EasUS Partition Master. Here is a link for information on the program http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm You can download the free home edition at: http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm At the worst it should be able to delete all partitions found on the drive and create one large partition for you. Ya, I saw that app but I always hesitate to download things that don't come recommended personally. I never really know what I might get. Iv 'e thought of partition magic also so maybe I will do something like that. For a personal recommendation, I have used the program on many drives from time to time to create or delete partitions. I have used it to change the size of partitions when needed with out deleting the user data but I also keep a backup copy of the data prior to doing that just in case things go wrong. |
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On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:05:52 -0500, GlowingBlueMist
wrote: On 5/26/2012 5:47 AM, Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al Try giving the free (for home use) program EasUS Partition Master. Here is a link for information on the program http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm You can download the free home edition at: http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm At the worst it should be able to delete all partitions found on the drive and create one large partition for you. Success. I have formatted this disk and it shows as 2.72 TB. I needed to enter the Clean function before the format procedure. I found no documentation suggesting this so I tried it anyway and it worked. So to break it down: Command line: diskpart then enter: list disk this will show the disks online Then enter the disk number you want to format so I entered selected disk 2 It replied Disk 2 is now the selected disk. I entered: Clean it took a few seconds then I entered: Format fs=ntfs label "new volume" quick new volume was the name of that disk. http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine/...artitions.aspx Al. |
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Allen Drake wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:05:52 -0500, GlowingBlueMist wrote: On 5/26/2012 5:47 AM, Allen Drake wrote: I have this HDD http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard.../barracuda-xt/ That is showing as a 2TB drive. In disk management I see an unallocated 750Gig partition and I want to restore this drive to it's original 3TB size. Can someone tell me the best and quickest way to get this done? I had this drive put away as a cloned drive of a system and just now noticed what somehow has happened. I get confused when I am using cloning applications when I am dealing with drives of different sizes. I have since moved on to using all Crucial 256GB SSDs on all my systems to keep things simple. Downside is these drives always seem to need firmware updates that don't seem to like being done with USB connection. Thanks for any help and comments. Al Try giving the free (for home use) program EasUS Partition Master. Here is a link for information on the program http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus...o-tutorial.htm You can download the free home edition at: http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm At the worst it should be able to delete all partitions found on the drive and create one large partition for you. Ya, I saw that app but I always hesitate to download things that don't come recommended personally. I never really know what I might get. Iv 'e thought of partition magic also so maybe I will do something like that. Those apps will run into the same 2 TB limit as Disk Management. Find out if they have some magic workaround before you download. It's something they'd brag about. -- Crash English is not my native tongue; I'm an American. |
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