Windows 10: Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB

Discus and support Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Trying to figure out a workaround to utilize the second partition on my 4 TB drive. The drive shows an active partition of 2048 GB. I cannot format,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by ChiMansfield, Oct 18, 2018.

  1. CHIMANSFIELD
    ChiMansfield Win User

    Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB


    Trying to figure out a workaround to utilize the second partition on my 4 TB drive. The

    drive shows an active partition of 2048 GB. I cannot format, activate or do anything.

    :)
     
    ChiMansfield, Oct 18, 2018
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  2. JROOTH6577
    jrooth6577 Win User

    large 4 tb drive but windows only recognizes 2 TB and the remainder in left in an unusable partition

    Trying to figure out a workaround to utilize the second partition on my 4 TB drive. The drive shows an active partition of 2048 GB and an unallocated partition of 1678.02 GB. I cannot format, activate or do anything as all options presented when I right
    click are greyed out.

    I know this has to have been presented before and I am sorry for the redundant entry but I was unable to locate a listing or a search box.
     
    jrooth6577, Oct 18, 2018
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  3. DLFETTERS48
    dlfetters48 Win User
    Cannot view area/data of hard drive above 2 TB of 4 TB hard drive



    Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB [​IMG]
    I have installed my cloned Western Digital Black 2 TB hard drive and booted up as sole drive and all went well. I then shut down my PC and disconnected the Western Digital Black 2 TB hard drive and I then reconnected my Western Digital Black 4 TB hard drive and then I converted this drive to GPT from MBR. I shut down my PC again and reconnected my Western Digital Black 2 TB hard drive, restarted and then went into my PC BIOS and set this drive as the primary boot device. I still cannot access any of the data in the just under 1700 GB partion of Disk 1. I started to assign a drive letter to this partion but a reformat was asked for, so I backed off from that option. What steps next should I take? Thank to All
    Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB [​IMG]
     
    dlfetters48, Oct 18, 2018
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  4. OUTDOORSTEVE
    OutdoorSteve Win User

    Large 4 tb drive but Windows only recognizes 2 TB

    How do I format a 2 TB thumb drive?

    My printer does not recognize my 2 TB thumb drive when I put it into my printer to create a pdf or jpeg from a scan. Any suggestions on what the formatting specs should be when I re-format the drive with Windows 10?

    The Drive tools/Manager/Format specs in my Windows 10 are for:

    Capacity showing as 1.90 TB

    File System (3 choices are exFat (default), NTFS, and 512KB)

    Allocation Unit size ( has many choices)

    I usually check "Quick format" box.

    Thanks.
     
    OutdoorSteve, Oct 18, 2018
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