New to this forum, I’ve trawled for an answer to this problem - apologies if it’s already been raised. Am running W7 64-bit Pro and wanted to split my new drive’s single partition of 2794.49 GB into two partitions. Using W7 Disk Management, I deleted the single volume and was surprised to see two …

Thanks again Joe - appreciate your attention and suggestions. This is not something I do very often either :angry: However. I’ve dug into the topic and now understand more about MBRs and GPTs and the 2 TB limit. I have solved the problem by deleting the 2TB partition to give me a totally unalloc…

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Joe_S February 15, 2011, 3:40pm 8

Is there a volume to delete for the unallocated space?

Joe