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Frontview formats a FOUR tb external drive as a TWO tb ext3!
So I thought I'd found a reasonably priced high-capacity external hard drive for backing up my ReadyNAS: Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II - 4 TB (Mac-formatted out of the box) http://www....
Hi ewok,
I've used gparted on Linux to partition as a 6tb gpt partition formatted as ext3. It shows up as an unrecognized 5.8tb disk in frontview. I've have partitioned as a 6tb gpt partition on a vista pc, formatted as ntfs with the same results. Is it worth partitioning on a pc again and not formatting, or will frontview only format after wiping and repartitioning?
I've used gparted on Linux to partition as a 6tb gpt partition formatted as ext3. It shows up as an unrecognized 5.8tb disk in frontview. I've have partitioned as a 6tb gpt partition on a vista pc, formatted as ntfs with the same results. Is it worth partitioning on a pc again and not formatting, or will frontview only format after wiping and repartitioning?
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