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Formatting an External Drive (4TB Seagate)
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09-18-2016, 08:56 PM (This post was last modified: 09-18-2016, 08:59 PM by gold_finger.)
I'm sure Wirezfree knows this, but just slipped his mind.

There's a 2TB limit for MBR drives -- won't recognize rest of space after 2TB.  So you need to use GPT.


More details here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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Re: Formatting an External Drive (4TB Seagate) - by gold_finger - 09-18-2016, 08:56 PM

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