Installing a 3tb drive

[MAXIBOY]

having issues installing these sizes drives in windows seven

installed them as 1.99gb drives but wont let me do anything now to them

format or reallocated the partitions.. so i ,m losing massive space

every time i try i get can not do anything to boot drive on both. neither are the boot drive

help please

 

[wazza300]

Think you have to format them and create a gpt partition,then they will show 3tb space

 

[MAXIBOY]

I cant format it.. re- partition it or any thing else much..

really getting me wound up

 

[wazza300]

What board are you using?

 

[MAXIBOY]

as rock z68 extreme gen3

 

[wazza300]

to be sure,you checked in disk manager console?

start/ right click my computer/manage/storage/disk management

right click the drives and try to format them,then create a gpt disk

 

[rpstewart]

There's a convert to gpt option on the right click menu for the grey drive icon at the left side of the disk management view. It'll be greyed out until, I assume, you remove all the current partitions.

 

[MAXIBOY]

its is greyed out but so is the delete partition menu and it wont allow me to format them either..

 

[rpstewart]

Is there anything other than "primary partition" noted under the size in disk management?

 

[MAXIBOY]

page file primary partition active on one

page file primary partition not active on the other

neither will delete or format

 

[rpstewart]

You'll probably need to remove the page file from each one before windows will let you delete the partitions

 

[MAXIBOY]

i cant find it to remove it.. any help please

 

[MAXIBOY]

sorted it managed to reformat using the hirens boot cd and then rebooted allowing me to delete partitions and gpt the lot into single drives

 

[dneill2006]

Why not just use diskpart.exe to clean the drive thus erasing all partitions?