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supahawt

Post subject: WD MyBook 6TB can only create 2TB partition

Posted: December 6th, 2020, 0:57

Joined: December 6th, 2020, 0:20
Posts: 2
Location: Indonesia

Hello, im new here
i have a problem with my 6TB external hdd
it can only created 2TB partition
it doesn't have any bad sector

the 'New Simple Volume' is disabled

How can I fix this problem ?

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DeVlL

Post subject: Re: WD MyBook 6TB can only create 2TB partition

Posted: December 6th, 2020, 11:19

Joined: August 31st, 2020, 11:41
Posts: 66
Location: España

Hi.

The drive is probably in MBR format. And so you can only partition maximum 2 TB. You have to change the drive to GPT format.

Here is a link about it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/193669/whats- ... g-a-drive/

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supahawt

Post subject: Re: WD MyBook 6TB can only create 2TB partition

Posted: December 7th, 2020, 17:32

Joined: December 6th, 2020, 0:20
Posts: 2
Location: Indonesia

DeVlL wrote:

thank you
it works like a magic

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