3tb hard drive showing as 59.6gb

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motorboatink1ng

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I just finished building my first computer ever an hour or so ago. I installed a 3tb seagate barracuda. I made a partition for the operating system (windows 8 x64), and everything installed fine. But under my computer it shows as a 59.6GB Hard drive. What do I need to do to have full use of the hard drive?

This is what I just built
MSI z87-g45
Radeon HD 7850
i5-4570s
Seagate Barracuda 3tb
vengeance 8gb ddr3 (2x4gb)
liteon ihas 124b
Corsair tx650w
and put it all in a Corsair Carbide 300r


Thanks for your help, I'm pretty new to computer world, like I said this is my first build.
 
You probably partitioned it wrong when installing. Can you go into disk management and post a screen shot of it?
 
Nope its too small. Can you host the pic on a file sharing site and give me the link? like photobucket or imageshack.
 
Ok, much better.

What you need to do is this.

Right click on the 1988gb unallocated partition and click on delete and do the same thing with the 746.52 gb unallocated partition. That will make it one big partition. Then you need to right click and click on shrink volume and give some of that space to your 59gb partition. You really shouldn't need any more than say 150 gb for your c drive I would think. Unless you plan on installing tons of apps and games.
 
motorboatink1ng said:
Ok, I built this to play games on, but, excuse the noobness, does it matter what partition I save games onto?
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Games and apps should be installed to C drive. Put all your personal data, such as pics, music, documents on the other partition.

motorboatink1ng said:
also, sorry again, I don't see a delete anywhere?
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Once your right click on the unallocated part you should see delete volume or just delete.
 
when I right click I see New simple Volume.... properties and help. New spanned volume and new striped volume are greyed out. I looked all over in the options and actions and could not find delete
 
Ok it seems you can't delete unallocated partitions. But I know I have done that before. Therefore you only have 2 options here.

1. Killdisk the drive so that it deletes everything and then do a fresh install of windows making sure you only create 2 partitions, one for OS and apps and one for your personal data.

2. Download and run this program to merge/move/resize your partitions. http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm Download the freeware version. I've never tried it but a microsoft website recommended it.
 
motorboatink1ng said:
Ok I will try option 2 and post back. If I do killdisk, will I be able to use the same product key for windows 8 that I have?
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Yes.

motorboatink1ng said:
and would I want C: drive to be the full max size?
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You can if you want but its always best to separate your personal data from the OS in case you ever have to reinstall windows. That way all your data would be on a different partition and you wouldn't have to back anything up before reinstalling windows. However, once you are done installing you will have to change the folder locations for music, documents, pictures, etc.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/redirect-a-folder-to-a-new-location

I'm sure this also applies to windows 8.
 
OK. I thought the product key was a one and done type thing. I'm 27% done with option 2, but there is still 746GB that I can't do anything with, everything is greyed out. So tomorrow I will probably just do a killdisk and start over.
 
Nope, you can reuse the same key on the same computer as many times as you want. You may only have issues getting it activated but only a phone call to microsoft to get it activated is needed.

To be honest, I would killdisk it and start over. Not knowing what you did during the install to create those other 2 partitions. After the killdisk and you start the install you should see one big drive listed to where windows wants to install. If windows 8 install is like 7 then you need to click on advanced drive options to partition the drive.

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Then click on new.

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If you want say a c drive with 150gb then you need to enter 150000 as the partition size.

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In the picture above, he has a 60gb drive and wants to separate it into 2 30gb partitions.

Hopefully this explains how you want to install better. You just need to figure out how much space you will need for drive C. If you want 250gb then you would enter 250000 in that box. You can leave the balance of the drive alone until after windows install then you can use disk management to format and assign a drive letter to that last part of the drive.

Just make sure you are highlighting the correct partition before clicking on install or you may install to wrong one.
 
Can't you just right click on the 59.66GB partition and extend it?
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I do believe why it has the 2TB Unallocated and the 700GB unallocated is that the drive is using MBR which has a max compacity of 2TB
 
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Gooberman said:
Can't you just right click on the 59.66GB partition and extend it?
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I do believe why it has the 2TB Unallocated and the 700GB unallocated is that the drive is using MBR which has a max compacity of 2TB
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Yea I just tried that and it said that I can't have more than 2tb. I did re install windows though so I know have all but 746GB usable. That will have to do thanks.
 
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