I can't return the shrunk volume to the original disk

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Hi.

I got too excited on using my 3TB MyBook. I just bought this on this day. And, here I am. I had a problem.

I’ll make it short and understandable in dummy way:

  1. I went to Disk Management and planned to shrink 1.5 TB from my 3TB MyBook.( because there will be 2 users of this and we want our belongings to be well-organized. )

  2. Something went wrong. The 1.5TB that I shrunk turned out to be 2 parts.

Here’s a pic :

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  1. I was able to return the 650 GB by right-clicking the Primary Part and selected “Extend Volume”.

  2. There was a list of unallocated volumes that let me choose which unallocated volumes should I take. But,

  3. The 746 GB unallocated volume couldn’t be found when I tried to bring back the 2 unallocated parts to the Primary.

Please, help. Thanks in advance.

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Probably the easiset thing is to download the WD format tool and reformat the entire drive and start over. This will wipe out all data. This might help http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3865

Joe