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Evening All,

So as the title says, I have a drive that I was formatting as I am selling it, during the format or rather after, it now only displays 1.63TB of the 4 with no unallocated space in Disk Management. The only programme that is still registering and showing that it is a 4TB is HD Sentinel. There are no other avenues I know of that can bring back the rest of this space.

Does anyone happen to know a manner in which I can get the rest of that space back? I tried something called EaseUS Partition as I thought it would be able to do something with the Partition style of GPT & MBR or whatever they are called, but it doesn't show anything more useful than Disk Management.

TIA
 
Are you experiencing this in an enclosure? or when the drive is connected to your motherboard?

it could be that the sata controller you are using only supports up to 2TB ..
 
Have you tried using Diskpart (i.e. run CMD as an admin and then run diskpart)? I have used this when Disk Management did not see things it was supposed to see.
 
Maybe scrub it with Diskpart in CMD using the clean command. How much HP does it show in HD sentinel?
 
@goldfritter Have not tried Diskpart, health and everything on the drive is 100%

@nemo it is in an enclosure, a very old one at that due to moving to ITX

will give CMD a run quickly and see if the enclosure will limit it at all.

TY for the swift response Huumans
 
As the guys above mentioned - used diskpart
make sure you select the correct drive (select disk x) and run "clean" then "convert gpt"
 
It doesn't seem to want to select the drive after list disk. But portray the disk as the 1.6TB to begin with as well. Entering any of the options brings out the ub-list for that option, but when you select a sub-option, it reverts bask to the diskpart menu options.

Will shove the HDD into my system in the morning as I'm not going to sukkle with that now. I have selected the correct disk and clean function does nothing as the drive is already clean. All drives are in GPT and not MBR/ or Dynamic.

I cannot Create, delete, extend, expand or anything really as it simply tells me no volume is selected
 
@Nemo415 was spot on, didn't know SATA controllers had such a limitation.

Thank you again to everyone who chipped in :) Taught me some nice tricks that I previously didn't know was even possible xD
 
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