trying to get windows 10 to recongnize my 6 tb hard drive not only 1.99 tb

Hi Phillip

Open Start, type: CMD

Right click CMD

Click Run as administrator

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

diskpart

list disk

Select the drive, and reformat it:



select disk <disk number>

clean

convert gpt

exit



Close the command prompt window.

Exit then restart to see if its recognized in Disk Management.

Press Windows key + X

Click Disk Management

Hi PhillipGosson , 

My name is Ana. I am an Independent Advisor. Thanks for contacting our support

Important to keep in mind, that if this 6tb disk that you want to convert to GPT is not recommended to be used to install the operating system because the motherboard may not recognize it to execute this action.

Convert an MBR disk into a GPT disk

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server...

Using GPT Drives

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versi...(v=vs.85)

I wish you help.

Regards

Phillip, what happened when you attempted those commands?

If they did not work, try using a free utility such as Easeus ToDo Partition free to format it.

Free partition manager software to resize partitions - EaseUS ...

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-fr...

Additional instructions:

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/convert...

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Hello Phillip,

First, thank you for posting your question with us.

I am a Microsoft Independent Advisor, and I am happy to assist you with your question.

In the following Microsoft link, there is a list of steps to convert a Master Boot Record (MBR) disk into a GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk. Please, let me know if you need additional resources. Hope this help.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server...

Best regards,

Vladimir

Hi Phillip. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 9 year Windows MVP and Independent Advisor, here to help you.

If you want to install Windows to the drive you need to have a UEFI BIOS, boot the media as a UEFI device, delete all partitions down to Unallocated Space to reset the formatting, then create your partitions and install Windows to the first large partition (after the small System partitions it will create). This will format GPT.

If you only want to use the drive for data then you don't have to have a UEFI system, just open Disk Management, find the drive on the drive map below, right click on the Disk Number in box on left side, choose Convert to GPT.

Then right click on the empty area to right to Create and format a new GPT partition as shown here: https://www.pcworld.com/article/248980/how-to-p...

This is a destructive process so you need to back up your files from the drive first.

For a non-destructive method see here: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-mbr-to-g...

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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