mrgrieves4
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I recently bought a 4tb seagate external drive. My intention is to back all my stuff up onto it, and put the windows 10 external media off it and reinstall windows (because the windows update always crashes). And if that fails, jump ship to Ubuntu. After that I want to repurpose the drive for my ps4.
When I started out, I noticed that it was only showing with a capacity of 32gb in windows. I've spent some time fiddling around with both the Disk Management tool that comes with Win10 and EaseUS partition manager and now have this situation:
First partition: 2048gb (NTFS) - Primary Partition
Second partition: 1678gb (Unallocated)
Now I think I probably want to use fat32 instead of ntfs if I end up having to go the ubuntu route but that's not my main problem. Currently I'm trying to merge the partitions together. But try as I might, I can't seem to do anything with the unallocated space. I realise FAT32 can have a 2tb maximum depending on how it's formatted hence sticking with ntfs for now.
If I right click it in disk management, all the options are greyed out. And right clicking on the primary parition the "Extend volume" option is greyed out.
In EaseUS, if I right click on the unallocated partition the only options I get are "wipe data", "partition recovery" and "properties". If I right click on the primary one and choose Extend then the unallocated space doesn't show up. If I try move/resize I don't seem to be able to make the primary partition any bigger.
Just to clarify - the drive has nothing on it so I don't care about losing any data yet.
Can anyone help? I'm a bit uneducated when it comes to this sort of thing so don't really know what I'm doing. I don't know why a new drive would come setup with just a tiny bit of it usable anyway.
When I started out, I noticed that it was only showing with a capacity of 32gb in windows. I've spent some time fiddling around with both the Disk Management tool that comes with Win10 and EaseUS partition manager and now have this situation:
First partition: 2048gb (NTFS) - Primary Partition
Second partition: 1678gb (Unallocated)
Now I think I probably want to use fat32 instead of ntfs if I end up having to go the ubuntu route but that's not my main problem. Currently I'm trying to merge the partitions together. But try as I might, I can't seem to do anything with the unallocated space. I realise FAT32 can have a 2tb maximum depending on how it's formatted hence sticking with ntfs for now.
If I right click it in disk management, all the options are greyed out. And right clicking on the primary parition the "Extend volume" option is greyed out.
In EaseUS, if I right click on the unallocated partition the only options I get are "wipe data", "partition recovery" and "properties". If I right click on the primary one and choose Extend then the unallocated space doesn't show up. If I try move/resize I don't seem to be able to make the primary partition any bigger.
Just to clarify - the drive has nothing on it so I don't care about losing any data yet.
Can anyone help? I'm a bit uneducated when it comes to this sort of thing so don't really know what I'm doing. I don't know why a new drive would come setup with just a tiny bit of it usable anyway.