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You know if you’re motherboard supports UEFI you can get that whole 4 tbs without having to have another partition. You have to change it in the UEFI settings. I believe you would also have to reinstall Windows but I could be incorrect there.
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Dunno exactly what you mean. My external 4 TB are 2 different Hard Drives. One has 1 TB and is quite some years old and the other has 3 and i bought it last year.[/quote]
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said exactly. I must not have been reading quite well (I was up late when I typed that and read what you typed). Windows won’t allow you to boot directly off of a 4 tb hard drive, it’ll split the drive into two partitions. Not only this, if your motherboard is bios (if the drive is larger than 2.2 terabytes) it’ll split the drive into two partitions. For example a 4 terabyte drive would be divided into one partition (2.2 terabytes) with a 1.8 terabyte partition. From my understanding, UEFI is not the same thing as BIOS and UEFI actually emulates a BIOS. Another thing I learned since I built my pc is that the fact when I installed Windows, I ran across this problem. This is because I didn’t install Windows under UEFI. One downside to UEFI is that you can only split the drive into 4 partitions. Another thing is, my 4 tb drive is my boot drive for now (looking to buy a solid state drive). The drive is still in two partions (since it’s a boot drive), but it’s not bad because the System Reserve partition has 65.8 MB free of 99.9 MB. My C: drive has 3.63 (Terabytes). This is after Windows changes the space formats to whatever the hell it’s called.
1 Terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1000^⁴
1 Tebibytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024^⁴
Apparently windows sees 1 Kilobyte as 1024 (1 kibibyte) so this is why it shows that your drive has less space on it.
