Author: ZiAMoA
Subject: "3TB Unlocker" not fixing 6TB HDD seen as 1.5TB
Posted: 17 Aug 2016 at 3:33pm
Thanks Kladno, you put me on the right track! I've found what seems to be a complete workaround to the problem.
Subject: "3TB Unlocker" not fixing 6TB HDD seen as 1.5TB
Posted: 17 Aug 2016 at 3:33pm
Thanks Kladno, you put me on the right track! I've found what seems to be a complete workaround to the problem.
I booted an old Windows 7 System Repair Disc I had on hand, went into the command prompt, and ran Diskpart there. It reported my 6 TB drive's size accurately as 5589 TB! So I ran the following commands to reinitialize it as GPT and format it:
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Then I rebooted into Windows and the disk was all ready to use with its full 6 TB capacity available.
Oddly, when I now run Diskpart from within Windows, it still shows the same disk as being only 1493 GB in size, just as before. So whatever the heck is crippling Windows' own partitioning tools making them unable to see the disk's full capacity seems to still be present. But since I've now gotten the disk properly initialized and formatted outside of Windows, I seem to have sidestepped the problem, so I think I can just ignore it now.
Anyway, I'm considering this as good as case closed. Thanks again to everyone who offered me help. ![Thumbs Up]( "Thumbs Up")
