Question 4TB hard drive installed but is this correct

[mick1964]

Hi everyone,

Just installed a 4Tb Wd Drive in my pc running windows 10 it sees the whole 4TB but puts it as a Healthy Basic Data partition is this correct as i thought it would show as a Healthy primary partition like my 2TB Drive does.

Thanks

 

[CompuGuy71]

If you haven't written anything to it yet and it was a bare drive there can't be any healthy partitions because you don't have any.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Just installed a 4Tb Wd Drive in my pc running windows 10 it sees the whole 4TB but puts it as a Healthy Basic Data partition is this correct as i thought it would show as a Healthy primary partition like my 2TB Drive does.

Show screenshot from Disk Management.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

Generally drives larger than 2TB require GPT drive partitioning.
With MBR partitioning partition has description "Primary Partition" or "Logical Drive".
With GPT partitioning partition has description "Basic Data Partition". There are also some special purpose partitions like "EFI System" and "Recovery".

 

[mick1964]

I deleted the volume and then created a new one and it just makes it as a Healthy Basic Data partition again

 

[SkyNetRising]

I deleted the volume and then created a new one and it just makes it as a Healthy Basic Data partition again

If you want to have a primary partition, then

delete all partitions,​

convert the drive to MBR and​

then create a partition.​

Note - you'll not be able to use more than 2TB of your drive capacity this way.

 

[mick1964]

Not sure if this link works

https://imgur.com/a/8CfhmRG

View: https://imgur.com/a/8CfhmRG
Does this look like it should

 

[SkyNetRising]

Does this look like it should

Yes. It looks like it should.
GPT partitioned drive. Read above - post #3.