Unable to partition recognized drive

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Trying to partition a MyBook 3 TB.

I’ve been able to partition other external drives using ‘Computer Management" > "Disk Management’.

This drive is recognized, but when I go to right click the volume, ‘new simple volume’ does not appear.

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Any thoughts appreciated.

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You have to ‘Delete the Volume’ before the option ‘New Simple Volume’ appears

(look under Add Mirror to find Delete Volume)

WARNING: This will delete all your data !

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OK thanks so much…that did it, partially.

I’m now left with 2 partitions (when I created the simple volume I didn’t
have an option of making the partition larger than 2048 GB), and cant
create a simple volume on the 746.49 GB.

What do I need to do to create the simple volume on the other partition?

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You have to initialize the drive in GPT . .then create the partitions . … Windows can only recognize 2TB below . . .the WD external drives usually comes with their own software to help you do this, if you deleted them ,I think you can download them from their site for free. . If you bought an internal drive, then you need a partition software to do this, you can find some on the internet for free like “Partition Wizard” which I use . .

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Thank you ronald_bayani!

Grateful :slight_smile:

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A nice, simple, free, program i use … AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.6

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good to know…thanks JoeySmyth https://community.wd.com/users/joeysmyth