3tb hard drive showing as 59.6gb

[larsch]

Just right click on the 746gb partition and click on new simple volume.

When the addressable sector size is 512 bytes and the size of drive goes beyond 2 TiB that means trouble - when using the old MBR-style partitioning. GPT resolves that.

 

[S.T.A.R.S.]

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.

You can use those 746 GB as a second partition then on which you could store all your personal data as johnb35 suggested.

There is a way to have a C: drive to be big as your entire 3 TB hard drive,but like larsch said...you can't do it on the normal way.
Because MBR is the standard partitioning scheme that's been used on hard disks since the PC first came out. It supports 4 primary partitions per hard drive, and a maximum partition size of 2TB.
GPT disks are new, and are readable only by Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Vista (all versions), and Windows XP x64 Edition. The GPT disk itself can support a volume up to 2^64 blocks in length. (For 512-byte blocks, this is 9.44 ZB - zettabytes. 1 ZB is 1 billion terabytes). It can also support theoretically unlimited partitions.
Windows restricts these limits further to 256 TB for a single partition (NTFS limit), and 128 partitions.
Only Itanium systems running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista systems with an EFI BIOS can boot from a GPT disk.Older operating systems can only use GPT disks as data disks but not boot disks.




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