Can't use my new 3TB disk

[Keiron]

I bought a Hitachi Deskstar 3TB disk last week. It's for back up only. I have a sort of "quick release" SATA hatch in my pc that I slot HDDs into and this is what I'm using.

However, in disk manager, it shows as 2 partitions, one of 2048 and one of 746. I cannot "combine" the two of them into one simple volume.

Anyone any ideas how to go about this? Thanks.

 

[Matt_C]

Can you the disk as unpartitioned space, with no file system, then format to NTFS (or whatever file system you use)

 

[jammyb2004]

What OS you using? Thought XP didn't like 3TB???

 

[Trollslayer]

XP suppports partitions up to 2TB, Vista/7 support GPT partions which are a lot larger - I can't remember but that it will last me this century.

 

[Keiron]

Thanks everyone, I eventually found this advice from Microsoft which worked a treat and dead easy:

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