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If you find that your computer does not have UEFI, then you would need to get a separate drive to boot from, such as an SSD (128, 256, or 512 GB, etc.) with Windows on it, then use the 5 TB drive for data storage. My Computer. ArthurDent. Posts : 388 Windows 10 Pro (x64) 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3996) Thread Starter.
The SSD is the boot drive. The 5TB drive was to be re-formatted as a data drive, together with a separate 1TB ex-laptop hard disk to keep a backup of important files (documents/pictures/videos) using @Try3's script (which I am currently running on both my laptop and my wife's laptop - regularly backing up files automatically to a 256GB SD Card).
23 Nov 2015 #2. You need to initialize the disk as GPT disk type. MBR disk type only allows to create partition of 2TB max. My Computer. JohnC. Posts : 0 Dual Boot 10 Pro v1607 10 Pro rs2 build 14971. 23 Nov 2015 #3. It needs to be a GTP disk. You can rt click on the disk in disk management and convert to GTP.
External 6Tb Hard drive is now 1.5Tb! My 6Tb external backup hard drive was having problems. I decided to reformat it. When I tried it failed & Windows identified it as a RAW drive, not NTFS. I tried Seagate Tools but that said the drive was okay. I deleted the volume & created a Simple Volume, then formatted to NTFS but it now only reads 1.5Tb.
OPs only recourse is to run tool like Recuva to try and recover (most of) data. Another drive is needed. I downloaded a Windows boot image onto my 1Tb external hard drive, but now my drive only appears in file manager as a 32gb external drive. Disk Manager shows my external drive (ESD-USB - 'G') as having a 32gb FAT32 (Healthy Primary Partition ...
5TB drive only showing as 561.53GB. I have a Toshiba 5TB X300 hard drive in this system. Bought it February 2019. Can't tell you anything about whether this disk has an AF designation on the drive. But I installed the drive brand new, out of the box, into a working system (OS on NVME), and initialized it GPT, created partitions, and formatted ...
30 Aug 2017 #2. Try using diskpart. With the drive connected, open a Command Prompt (Admin) or Powershell (Admin) and run: diskpart. list disk. select disk # <- replace the # with the actual number assigned to the 6TB external hard drive. clean <- this will completely erase the drive selected above, make sure it is the new external drive!
I have now installed a second 3TB physical drive (B:) as a backup for documents, music, pictures and videos. Both the 3TB and 5TB drives have been partitioned using the GPT scheme. The 5TB had been partitioned into two drives - W: (for Windows documents) and L: (for Linux documents) as I plan to dual boot with Linux Mint Mate 19.3 at some point.
When I said "5TB X300 USB disk" this was the 5TB disk that was causing the problems but I'd attached it to the PC as an external USB drive. Following your suggestion (post #17) I disconnected it as an external USB drive and then re-conneced it as an internal SATA drive, then ran Partition Manager with the results as posted in post #64.
The answer is "maybe", but probably not. There are a few potential issues: 1) SOME drives in external enclosures are specifically made so that they will not work when connected to a standard SATA port. There are typically workarounds to this like covering up one pin on the connector, etc. Search YouTube for "shucking <model of your HD>".