[errupin]

Originally Posted by crimpy Partition 2 TB + 1 TB may help you at the moment...(as expectet...) cu crimpy

Hi! I am new here so first of all congratulations for this forum, very useful for Dune users. I just wanted to ask if anybody tried the solution quoted above, just partitioning the 3 TB usb hdd in a PC under windows (2 TB + 1 TB) with NTFS format. That solution would be good enough for me if it works. Thanks.

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by errupin Hi! I am new here so first of all congratulations for this forum, very useful for Dune users. I just wanted to ask if anybody tried the solution quoted above, just partitioning the 3 TB usb hdd in a PC under windows (2 TB + 1 TB) with NTFS format. That solution would be good enough for me if it works. Thanks.

What's the point? Formatting it as one big partition works just fine, provided you format it on a Win7 machine or use Padavan's dune_service file.

[errupin]

Originally Posted by ScottJ97 What's the point? Formatting it as one big partition works just fine, provided you format it on a Win7 machine or use Padavan's dune_service file.

So I should format in gpt in my pc under w7 and everything would work fine?

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by errupin So I should format in gpt in my pc under w7 and everything would work fine?

Yes, except you will have this extra useless partition that Microsoft creates

If you don't plan to plug the disk into a Win7 PC ever again, I'd recommend Padavan's dune_service file.

[errupin]

My drive is an external 3 TB WD hard disk that I want to connect via USB. Will it also work following this procedure? Thanks

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by errupin My drive is an external 3 TB WD hard disk that I want to connect via USB. Will it also work following this procedure? Thanks

I don't know why it wouldn't. Certainly can't hurt to try.

[errupin]

Originally Posted by ScottJ97 I don't know why it wouldn't. Certainly can't hurt to try.

That's deffinitively true. I will try.

[errupin]

Hi again! I formated the external USB 3 TB disk using windows 7 drive administration tool: gpt partition with ntfs format... and Dune doesn't recognize it and prompts a message suggesting to format it to ext2! Should I use a specific software or something to format with gpt (i want to still be able to use the disk in my pc under windows 7)? Sorry for my ignorance and thanks for your help? regards.

[errupin]

ummmh... i found in the web that "Removable disks are MBR disks by default. Removable disks cannot be converted into a GPT disk."

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-gpt-disk.html

If this is true I cannot convert my external USB drive to GPT, can I?

[ScottJ97]

Originally Posted by errupin ummmh... i found in the web that "Removable disks are MBR disks by default. Removable disks cannot be converted into a GPT disk." http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-gpt-disk.html If this is true I cannot convert my external USB drive to GPT, can I?

If it's not supported, then how did you do it? And how else could you possibly use more than 2TB on any external drive? That sounds like nonsense to me.

Strange that the Dune doesn't recognize it. Are you sure the Dune has a modern firmware installed?