I have an external hard drive that is a 2T. It is installed into a box that has external power and a usb cable. When you plug the usb cable into any computer, it reads that there is space of 1.8 T. Which is about right. WHen I plug it into the router it only shows that it is 922GB. I know the hard drive works, because I have a ton of stuff on it, the only reason I noticed that it isn't a 1T drive is because I went into the router settings (192.168.1.1) and event here it recognied that it is a 2T drive. Any ideas would be helpfull.

ericdmurphy wrote: WHen I plug it into the router it only shows that it is 922GB. The usual cause of that is drive with separate partitions. ReadySHARE can handle just the one partition.

So I thought about that, but I plugged this hard into the computer, and it reads only the one partition, and it reads that there is 1.8T total. When plugbed back directly into the router, it reads 922G again.

That doesn't tell you about the partitioning. You need to check that in something like Windows disk manager.

This is plugged into the computer, reads fine.

R7000 Not reading external hard drive full space.

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michaelkenward
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 10, 2021
ericdmurphy wrote:

WHen I plug it into the router it only shows that it is 922GB.

The usual cause of that is drive with separate partitions. ReadySHARE can handle just the one partition.
- ericdmurphy
  Aspirant
  Mar 10, 2021
  So I thought about that, but I plugged this hard into the computer, and it reads only the one partition, and it reads that there is 1.8T total. When plugbed back directly into the router, it reads 922G again.
  - michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Mar 10, 2021
    That doesn't tell you about the partitioning. You need to check that in something like Windows disk manager.

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R7000 Not reading external hard drive full space.