5TB disk showing as 2-2TB devices in W10 Computer Mgmt

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I just received a WD5001FZWX (5TB Black) disk. I installed it in an external enclosure and plugged it into my Windows 10 system. When I opened Computer Management, the system showed 2 unformatted 2TB disks?!?!? I tried to use the “span disk” utility, but it failed (do they need to be formatted before doing that?).

I bought a 5TB disk cuz I needed an entire disk with 5TB on it, not 2-2TB drives.

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Sounds like your enclosure doesn’t support 5TB disks.

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When you initialized the disk the first time, you probably used the MBR option instead of GPT.
You will need to blow out the current format and re-initialize using GPT for the volume type. Then you will see the full 5TB
You can try the “Convert to GPT” option first in Disk Management.

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I’m seeing this before I get to the point of formatting the disk.

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Interesting, wouldn’t have expected the enclosure could limit that, but I’ll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!!!

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Tim/Tony - you were basically both right. The enclosure wouldn’t support anything bigger than 2TB. When I moved the disk inside the computer (something I was going to do after copying the files off the internal disk), the computer saw the disk in 2 parts so doing the “Convert to GTP” fixed the problem.

Thank you both!!!