reformating disk from synology

[Guest]

I removed a "bad" 3TB drive (it had barely failed a disk check) - but wanted to diskchk it in Win 7. So I deleted the synology formatted volume - and suddenly I only have 746GB unallocated shown as the entire disk size in computer management. I see no additional partitions available.

Is there any way to recover this space?

 

[terry4536]

Here is a webpage describing formatting and partitioning a hard drive.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7

 

[Guest]

Here is a webpage describing formatting and partitioning a hard drive.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7

Unfortunately, that is not applicable - b/c the ONLY space available is the 746GBs. I've tried to reformat and parition it... but that's the only size that disk management shows on the disk.

 

[Guest]

Actually, I found my answer on the synology site - guy had exactly the same issue (and size), For anyone that's interested...

In case someone else runs into this same issue as me, gonna put down the answer here. You CANNOT USE A USB CADDY/CONNECTION to try to format an EXT partitioned disk on Windows (pulled from the NAS). You will only see a small portion of the total space, in my case, 740GB out of 3TB. The only way to access the full space is to internally connect it via SATA, and then pop open your Computer Mgmt/Disk Mgmt or any other 3rd party software, like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Delete all partitions, then create one large NTFS partition using all the allocated space of the disk, and done. Usually after that, I would do a format again in Windows just to be sure.

 

[terry4536]

Have you formatted the drive since deleting the partition? The process of formatting a hard drive removes previous partitions and allows you to format the entire drive to a single partition.

Here is some more info on the topic using disc management.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/248980/how-to-partition-and-format-your-hard-drive-in-windows.html

 

[terry4536]

Actually, I found my answer on the synology site - guy had exactly the same issue (and size), For anyone that's interested...

In case someone else runs into this same issue as me, gonna put down the answer here. You CANNOT USE A USB CADDY/CONNECTION to try to format an EXT partitioned disk on Windows (pulled from the NAS). You will only see a small portion of the total space, in my case, 740GB out of 3TB. The only way to access the full space is to internally connect it via SATA, and then pop open your Computer Mgmt/Disk Mgmt or any other 3rd party software, like MiniTool Partition Wizard. Delete all partitions, then create one large NTFS partition using all the allocated space of the disk, and done. Usually after that, I would do a format again in Windows just to be sure.

You said that you removed it from the NAS and was checking it with Win 7

 

[Guest]

Yes - my mistake, however, was that I used a USB caddy... and didn't connect it internally... which I'm about to try

 

[terry4536]

Did you get the drive space resolved?

 

[Guest]

Did you get the drive space resolved?

I'll respond after I connect it internally. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Yes, that was the solution.

 

[terry4536]

Good. I hope I was of some help.