Windows 10: HD size (removed from USB external) shows badly wrong

I removed a 3TB Seagate HD from its external box as I wanted to use it internally. Have done this 3 or 4 trimes before with no problems (yeah, warranty, sure...); this was sort of surplus to requirements. However, on installing internally, it is now no longer 3TB, but 746.52Gb!

Anyone? No room to expand it in Disk Management - what happened?

Cheers

Jeremy

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I have attached an external HD to my computer running Windows 10 and it will not show up in my drive list. The properties shows it as Seagate.ink - what is an ink file and any suggestions as to how I can get it to work?

 

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

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