Trying to use my new 3TB HDD

[NikolaeVarius]

I'm trying to get access to my new 3TB HDD, but it won't show up in My Computer. Its been properly formatted as NTFS, GPT, however, I can't "open" the drive at all. In the Picture, the new HDD is stuff 1/stuff 2. What the hell is the issue here?

 

[tynopik]

looks like you didn't assign a drive letter

select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths' from that menu

 

[NikolaeVarius]

And...that worked, even though I was sure that the partition manager did it because it was an option on the format menu. Funny how the smallest and stupidest things are the ones you always look over.. Thanks for the help.

 

[GPz1100]

I'm curious, why break down the drive in to two partitions? I used to do that in years past. As I added more drives, it got to the point where I had so many partitions, keeping track of them became a challenge.

You do realize if you're trying to access data from both partitions at the same time, it will slow down the overall access of both?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I'm curious, why break down the drive in to two partitions? I used to do that in years past. As I added more drives, it got to the point where I had so many partitions, keeping track of them became a challenge.

You do realize if you're trying to access data from both partitions at the same time, it will slow down the overall access of both?

Storage partition, and program partition.

Helps keep me organized

 

[corkyg]

It also makes drive maintenance faster, and also can facilitate synching with other machines and drives. And, if you have more than one OS drive, you can have each of them use the same data drive, and sometimes a smaller partition is easier to manage than everything in the "Grand Canyon."

 

[Mfusick]

Storage partition, and program partition.

Helps keep me organized

Why would you install any programs to a slow HDD ?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Why would you install any programs to a slow HDD ?

Because as it turns out, buying multiple SSD's are expensive and there are in fact in existence programs out there that do not benefit from SSD's and are insanely huge in size.

You know, MMO's, certain video games, and such.

Not all of us have money to be tossing around on multiple SSD's to hold ALL our programs.

 

[GPz1100]

To each their own. If it makes sense to the OP to split it up, by all means do so. I was just wondering why. With 10+ drives in my system, my goal is to reduce the # of letters so I can remember what's what/where.

I do agree with above though, keep your programs on the ssd, data on the spinning hd. Even a 128GB ssd should be sufficient to contain most OS/programs.

-=}free c:

Volume in drive C is WIN8_BOOTDISK
232,648,601,600 bytes total disk space
52,811,706,368 bytes used
179,836,895,232 bytes free
22.7 % in use

 

[wpcoe]

With 10+ drives in my system, my goal is to reduce the # of letters so I can remember what's what/where.

Sounds like you might be interested in Storage Spaces? (I'm assuming the "WIN8_BOOTDISK" is a system that runs Windows 8.)