WD SATA 6T install problem

[wankell]

After installing this drive I found 2G and 3.6G unallocated partitions. I've assigned a label to the 2G but am unable to the 3.6G. How do I use the unallocated 3.6G of the disc?
I am running Win7.

 

[johnnyb105]

Did you install windows 7 on the drive? Also you can go to wd site and download there software for 3TB and above...

 

[The Original Ralph]

just to confirm the basic, did you initialize the drive in disk management as GPT or MBR?

 

[wankell]

Win 7 is installed on an SSD and boots fine.
Could this be a driver issue?

wankell
i7Sandybridge
ASUS Sabertooth X79

 

[wankell]

Did you install windows 7 on the drive? Also you can go to wd site and download there software for 3TB and above...

The first 2G was initialized MBR. Right clicking on the second partition, New Simple Volume is not an option.

 

[The Original Ralph]

Did you install windows 7 on the drive? Also you can go to wd site and download there software for 3TB and above...

The first 2G was initialized MBR. Right clicking on the second partition, New Simple Volume is not an option.

there's your problem - go into disk management, in the grey box to the left of the long rectangular box where the drive's volumes are listed, right clik and select "GPT" - a MBR partitioned disk will not recognize more than 2 TB

again, to be clear, i'm not talking about right clikking on the partition, but the entire disk

 

[wankell]

Did you install windows 7 on the drive? Also you can go to wd site and download there software for 3TB and above...

The first 2G was initialized MBR. Right clicking on the second partition, New Simple Volume is not an option.

there's your problem - go into disk management, in the grey box to the left of the long rectangular box where the drive's volumes are listed, right clik and select "GPT" - a MBR partitioned disk will not recognize more than 2 TB

again, to be clear, i'm not talking about right clikking on the partition, but the entire disk

Right clicking over that grey box, I see "Convert to GPT disk" but it is not an option (grey). I don't see it when I try to format.

 

[The Original Ralph]

then you'll have to delete the 2 TB partition - iirc, right clik over the active partition and select "delete volume"

then you'll be able to select GPT, and then you'll have full access to the entire disk volume

btw, when you delete that volume or partition, you'll loose all data from it so be sure to copy to another drive

 

[wankell]

then you'll have to delete the 2 TB partition - iirc, right clik over the active partition and select "delete volume"

then you'll be able to select GPT, and then you'll have full access to the entire disk volume

btw, when you delete that volume or partition, you'll loose all data from it so be sure to copy to another drive

You nailed it!
Thank you.
wankell