Seagate 2nd Internal HDD not showing the correct size

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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Shdwmage

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.

tjb122982

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?

stryder144

Try formatting the drive, using NTFS as the file system, utilizing 1024 byte clusters.