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Unless you're doing a fresh install on a laptop with an SSD and an HDD and you've never taken anything apart in your life. Particularly the machines which require the removal of a keyboard, or removal of a keyboard followed by removing the screws under it to release the bottom case cover to get...

Yeah, but over there your issue was that you formatted using Windows Installer, so of course it created a hidden Windows partition. And, to be fair, - sure, there actually is a way to use Windows installer to erase the previous MBR/Recovery partition completely. You simply go ahead and delete...

Did you get the dynamic volume after you expanded the partition? If so, - and if you don't have a lot of data on the 10 tb drive - then copy the data you consider important and get rid of both partitions, then do a fresh GPT format. Should do the trick. Dynamic volume is no big deal though...

"Easier done than said" I meant... ))

Easier said than done. Run CMD as administrator. Type diskpart hit enter Type list disk hit enter Type select disk (look in Disk Manager under Manage in Computer which number it is) hit enter Type list partition Hit Enter Type select partition (again look which partition number you need to...

Most of it is indeed backed up on 2 other drives, at least things I would really worry about losing. But yeah, I would prefer not to have to format it again if I could avoid it. There is some voluminous data there that isn't terribly important but it's just over 1.4 TB, so it would take a long...

I do have files I want to keep - did you look at the image? If you create a GPT drive rather than MBR - Windows 10 will be able to see more than 2 Tb without needing to create extra partitions. Why do you call it "undesirable"? The need to mount/dismount?

itrip - Why would it have that extra partition if you re-formatted your drive? "MSR" is the 16 MB Windows partition. For partitions Windows 10 creates (like recovery) - you cannot get rid of it via Disk Manager. You need to use DISKPART via CMD or use a third party program. But if you were able...

USAFret - This is the best I can do - it's already changed to the highest resolution and the largest window that my screen will fit. You can ignore the WD My book - nothing changes when I disconnect it, nor is it always connected to my PC via USB3 anyway View: https://imgur.com/a/HdYGVXi...

OK USAFret. Because of the order the drives are in I can't fit it in one screenshot so I had to make 3 Here it is View: https://imgur.com/a/XF5RNb5 Any ideas?

Yeah. Left it alone for like 20 minutes. By now it should be inaccessible and give me I/O error, but since I removed that Windows partition and it somehow became a dynamic disk, so far so good? Are there any other not so well known implication of it being a dynamic disk that I should be aware of?

You think BIOS may be the issue? It's just that this problem never occurred to any other drives, just that 6Tb Seagate one. My 3 TB WD "MyBook" is doing just fine, my 4TB SATA - connected Seagate is OK too. And right now that the disk in question (the 6TB Seagate Drive) has the rusty green...

OK, this is going to be a bit complex because of some history so bear with me. I buy a lot of drives for my clients, both for servers (I do IT for some of my travel agency clients as well as residential computer related services). A few years back I started having issues with some Seagate hard...

Alternatively - should I go with this build instead? Is it legit. Is it better? Thx Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $152.60 @ Vuugo Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard $179.99 @ Newegg Canada Memory G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB)...

OK Guys. I wish I knew how to delete the other post I made somehow. I wanted to pick the responded as the answer but for some reason that option is not available. The OP really helped me though. I checked ASUS site and it seems to be saying this board is fully compatible with I3-9100 Coffee...