Hello all.
I recently received a 3tb hitachi 3.5 internal hdd as a gift. When trying to format and start using etc, I can only go up to two tbs in windows vista and in 7 (I know, limitations!)
My question is: If I just leave this 1 tb blank and unformatted and hit 1,99tb storage, would the disk make use of the extra 1tb unallocated space for sorting/selecting/indexing or I would still need to keep the drive at a 70-80% capacity to perform these functions?
If the extra 1tb does not help, what can I do to enable it properly and start using it as a second partition?
Another, offtopic question, do you think that dual boot is any use or is it just unnecessarily complicating things?
Switching between vista/7...
My use is only for gaming music and movies.
I recently received a 3tb hitachi 3.5 internal hdd as a gift. When trying to format and start using etc, I can only go up to two tbs in windows vista and in 7 (I know, limitations!)
My question is: If I just leave this 1 tb blank and unformatted and hit 1,99tb storage, would the disk make use of the extra 1tb unallocated space for sorting/selecting/indexing or I would still need to keep the drive at a 70-80% capacity to perform these functions?
If the extra 1tb does not help, what can I do to enable it properly and start using it as a second partition?
Another, offtopic question, do you think that dual boot is any use or is it just unnecessarily complicating things?
Switching between vista/7...
My use is only for gaming music and movies.