Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina. I hope that someone more competent than I will respond for you. You mean a 3 Terabyte (3000 Gigabytes) drive not a 3 Gigabyte drive I assume that you have Windows 7 (or Vista)? This can't be done with earlier windows than that. For whatever its worth, my understanding is that 2 TB is a limit due to the way windows deals with partitions. You need the newest hardware and driver for the storage controller. That is a chip on the mainboard (motherboard) and the part of windows that uses it. Unless you have good technical support to help you, I'd suggest that its safer for you to not try to upgrade by yourself (although you may only need that new driver, stuff could go wrong). In boxes like the Drobo or some external drive cases they use different controller systems that get around that 2TB limit. My Drobo had 5 x 2TB drives currently. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 19 December 2013 03:48, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > I just installed a new 3GB hard drive in my Just a Bunch of Disks box. > Windows 7 will not allow me to allocate the whole 3GB. I know some is > needed for indexing, etc., but they are keeping 745.52GB as Unallocated. I > don't have a Raid or any other system. It's just a bunch of disks in a > box. > > Is there any way I can use Disk Management to allocate more of the 3GB? I > hate to waste 745 GB that could be holding photos!! > > I've searched and only find incomprehensible (to me) Microsoft documents > that don't tell me a thing. > > Thanks, > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >