External 4 TB won't extend stuck at 2 TB in disk management after format

[kyleallenwilley]

I formated an external drive. It lost all the data but the drive worked. Tried data recovery to no avail. I went ahead and formated the external and it added a MBR. Then I was left with two sections, a formated and an unallocated. Pretty much half and half. I tried to extend the first partition and it says drives over 2TB. I deleted that MBR, but it seems nothing I try will get this external back to a 4TB. I don't want it to boot windows or anything. It's just for storing music, photos, files...etc. what do I do to get it back to a plain 4TB NTFS external drive?

 

[USAFRet]

GPT formatting, not MBR.

 

[kyleallenwilley]

How do you chose this? Can it be from disk management or do you need another software? If so, can you recommend a free solution?

 

[USAFRet]

How do you chose this? Can it be from disk management or do you need another software? If so, can you recommend a free solution?

Directly in Disk Management.

Right click on the square at the left of that drive. It should give you the option to convert to GPT.

 

[kyleallenwilley]

Okay, if I am in disk management in windows I show disk 2 online 3725.99, it has two unallocated sections 2048.00 unallocated and 1677.99 unallocated. Both in black. If I right click on the second of the two it just gives properties and help. In properties I can see it's partitioned as MBR. I can't do any action yet. The first section gives me the same options but also, new simple volume. If I click next I get to select size which will not go larger, click next I get drive letter / mount in following NTFS folder / Do not assign drive path. I chose assign and chose drive D. Hit next, I get do not format and format. I can format NTFS or exfat, i chose NTFS and allocation size default, hit finish.it won't let me extend to or format the other partition. If I go to format again it gives me another option of REFS but never does it in any menu I can find let me remove MBR or change it in either partition.

 

[USAFRet]

The little square on the far left, where it actually says "Disk 2".
Right click that. What options does it give you?

 

[kyleallenwilley]

That was it, I didn't know what sqaure you meant. It's fixed now. Thanks a ton.