Seagate 2nd Internal HDD not showing the correct size

tjb122982tjb122982 Member Posts: 255 ■■■□□□□□□□
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After a lot of pains of installing into my Gateway DX desktop and getting it to show the correct size time, several months ago; now my 2nd internal hdd (Seagate 4TB) is acting up again. A few days ago, everything was fine and then it just didn't showed up on Windows 7 Home Premium. I restarted and booted into the BIOS and it comes up Now then I downloaded the Seagate Discwizard and tried to add the disc again through that but it caused the blue screen of death which caused me to do a wipe and restore. The second internal HDD comes up now but it only shows 2TB and not 4TB. Is there any other tools I can use?
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  • ShdwmageShdwmage Member Posts: 374
    It sounds like you are hitting the 2tb limit. You probably need to change the format of the drive so it uses a file system that supports a drive of that size.
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  • tjb122982tjb122982 Member Posts: 255 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Shdwmage wrote: »
    It sounds like you are hitting the 2tb limit. You probably need to change the format of the drive so it uses a file system that supports a drive of that size.

    Right now, it is formatted with NTFS. Would FAT32 or exFAT work?
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Try formatting the drive, using NTFS as the file system, utilizing 1024 byte clusters.
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