Windows 10: WD 3TB HDD will only format to 2048GB with GPT (IT Professional)

Hey Guys,

New to the Forum's. I am really struggling with getting 3 of my 3TB WD Green HDD's to show up as full capacity. I have already gone through Disk Part with all of them and windows will only read them as 2048GB even in the Bios. They have all been formatted to GPT. This is similar to what happened to another poster 3 years ago here 3TB disk showing as 2TB - Windows 10 Forums

I could use as much help as possible to figure this out as I want to use all 3 drives as a spanned volume and I am losing over 1TB of physical space.

Here is a picture of the Disk Manager to show what I am talking about.









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can win10 be installed in HDD over 3TB

Provide the tool as (Seagate is doing for their HDDs), to format the rest hitachi 3TB HDD capacityon new Win 10 Pro 64bit PC withot UEFI Bios to see beyond 2TB HDD capacity, wth te new MBR or GPT... . I contacted WD company, but they asked me to contact
Microsoft.. But Im not sure if you can handle it, as always.

 

can win10 be installed in HDD over 3TB

What is your question?

 

Windows 10 will not "Quick Format" a 3TB HDD

Hi David,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



The time for Quick Format always depends on the size of the hard drive. As you mentioned that the size of the hard drive is 3 TB. So it will take certain amount of depending on the computer’s configuration as well.

However, it is possible that your 3TB HDD is MBR (master boot record) disk. You can check it in Disk Management, which only supports 2TB drive. That would be the reason the Windows 10 was unable to perform Quick Format on 3 TB HDD.
You can try to
convert an MBR disk into a GPT disk and check if Quick format is working.



We can suggest you to update the storage drivers of the computer from the manufacturer’s website which will increase the support capacity above 2TB.



Hope it helps.



Rohit Raina

Microsoft Community - Moderator