Ah! These technical experts I tell you! They know everything except for simple solutions what a Layman user asks. I’m sure each and every line discussed here must have been bonkers for you. Anyways, there is a much simpler solution to this. I will explain the steps but with a piece of introduction for people who understand such deep and intense technical terms. Of you also do, well and good for you. The reason why this problem is appearing is that the disk you are formatting is formatted with the use of an MBR style partition, which definitely is not an ideal way to do this. Basically, MBR partition styles are used by X86-based computers and they work perfect for them. When this style of partition is used, the hard disk’s first sector has the basic records for the butting of the system. The sector is basically not partitioned and is kept protected from illegitimate use. Large disks formatted with an MBR partition table will not give you access to more than approximately 2 TB of space on the disk. So you will have to try and switch to GPT style formatting. Because, GPT disks support volumes of up to 18 exabytes (EB) and as many as 128 partitions. In order to switch as desired. You will have to possible try this:
- First of all you have to make sure that there is no data at all on the disk
- All the files that you share on Windows Home Server should be moved to some other partition
- Open an elevated command prompt in your system, using the one of the following steps to it
o Go to the start menu and press on the run button out there
o Inside the text box that appears in the Run command box, type in CMD
o Another option is to go to start as mentioned above in the previous alternative
o go the button reading ‘All programs’ on it and look for accessories and click on it
o there, you will find something that reads ‘Command Prompt’, right click on it
o You will see an appearance of a dialog box that appears on right click of an item. There, you need to select run as admin
- On the black screen of the command prompt, you need to type the text that read ‘diskpart’ and hit enter
- After that, you should be typing ‘List Disk’ and then press enter again to continue
- There, spot your 3 TB disk that you wish to work on, and note its number to move ahead
- Again on the command prompt, type sel disk <number> where, <number> is nothing but the number of disk and press enter again
- After this, you can type, ‘Clean’ and then press Enter to continue
- To mark an end to the procedure, type in ‘Exit’ and press ‘Enter’
Post this, you can use the dashboard so as to partition the disk. This will definitely result into two usable partitions which be 2TB and other one will be around 2 TB
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