Windows 10: If I have a 2TB D: secondary drive in in Win 11, can I replace it with a 4TB, or larger?

Currently I have a 2TB C: drive, and a 2TB D: secondary drive, both SSD devices.Can anyone tell me how much larger a drive I can add as a D: drive?4TB, 6TB, 8TB?I'd be happy with 4TB, but can it be done?Thanks in advance.

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Windows Storage Spaces - Replacing HDDs in an existing Parity space with larger capacity drives.

I have a 6TB Parity storage space, consisting of four 2TB drives (capacity of three drives usable, one for parity) configured through Windows Storage Spaces. For those who don't know, Parity in Widnows Storage Spaces is essentially the same as RAID5. The
OS (W10Pro) resides on a seperate SSD outside of this configuration.

Let's say in the future I fill my 6TB want to increase the capacity of this storage. I then want to replace all these 2TB drives with 4TB drives, to increase the capacity of the storage space from 6TB to 12TB. I want to do this without moving the data to
external storage, as I don't have the space to do that (not after everyone's lectures/opinions on their backing up methods etc, just want to know if this is possible)

I am wanting to know if I replace one 2TB drive with a 4TB, let it rebuild, then replace the next etc, and so on until all four drives have been replaced and rebuilt the configuration, will I then be able to access the larger capacity of the drives (12TB),
or will I still be stuck at 6TB? Will storage spaces detect all drives are now at least 4TB and offer me the larger capacity?

Thanks

 

Windows 11 unable to allocate 2tb in a 4tb hard drive

Hi FoguWantsLiveMessengerBack

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

If that drive has an MBR partition style, you will not be able to use any more space on that drive, because 2TB is the maximum, that drive would need to be converted to a GPT partition style.

1
Windows cannot convert that drive without fata loss, there are some utilities available online that claim to be able to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without data loss.

2
To convert that drive using Windows, copy off any data on the drive temporarily to another location before you begin.

Then, open Command Prompt as administrator.

Run this command and hit Enter:

diskpart

Run this command and hit Enter:

list disk
(Make note of the disk number you want to convert and enter it into the next command - replace X)

Run this command and hit Enter:

select disk X

Run this command and hit Enter:

clean

Run this command and hit Enter:

convert gpt

Then close Command Prompt, open Disk management and create a 4TB partition on the drive

 

4tb Hard drives showing as 2tb

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (2009, 19042.985)

Version: 10.0.19042



I have 2 Seagate Barracuda drives that only show as 2tb.
They are gpt.
This is since using them in raid in nas.
tried everything in this thread
Disk Management shows new 4TB disk as 2TB despite using GPT
Drives are F & G in screenshot,i have 2 other 4tb drives that are fine.