Storage blocked

nashathedog · 15 Mar 2016 at 10:28

Hi, A while back my ssd threw a fit and would not work so as a temporary measure I used a 3tb drive for my main drive and stuck Windows on it for booting, Thinking I'd have no issue reverting it I made a partition that shows as a striped section, Unfortunately I made it 1tb's in size so now I have a 3tb drive but only have access to 2 tb's. It's no longer used for the OS and is simply a storage drive as originally intended but I have so far been unable to remove the partition and unlock the 1tb's section for use.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

EDIT: The reason I made it so large was inexperience, I thought I was creating an area I would use for the OS and software such as Office, Paint net, Agent Ransack, basically all the stuff I use and want available permanently.

flowrider99 · 15 Mar 2016 at 12:28

Are you using Windows disk management to delete the active partition and then creating a new partition that spans the whole drive?

Scurburg · 15 Mar 2016 at 15:32

If I am understanding correctly, you want to expand the existing partition from 2tb to 3tb?

If so, try using partition wizard 9 minitool (free for home use), should do the trick and is what I use with no problems so far. Really simple too, just highlight partition, hit resize, move slider and job done.

bledd · 16 Mar 2016 at 06:20

Format the drive and restore the data from your backup.