do windows 10 recognize 3TB Harddrive

Dear All,

do windows 10 recognize 3TB Harddrive ? As my windows 10 couldn't recognize 3tb Toshiba in gigabyte motherboard.

pls help.

Best Regards

Zakiul

Hi Zakiul,

Click on the link below.  7 Toshiba drives are supported. Is your drive in the list? Do you know the model number? 

Brenda

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/CompatCenter/ProductViewerWithDefaultFilters?TempOsid=Windows%2010&Locale=en-us&Architecture=X64&TextSearch=3tb%2Btoshiba&Type=Both&CurrentPage=0&TotalPages=1&ShowCriteria=0&SortCriteria=Relevance&Compatibility=Unknown&LastRequested=14

Dear All,

do windows 10 recognize 3TB Harddrive ? As my windows 10 couldn't recognize 3tb Toshiba in gigabyte motherboard.

pls help.

Best Regards

Zakiul

Cannot be formatted ntfs I think.

There is a thread in this forum that talks about this.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/3tb-drive-format-windows-10-not-working/2edab5e8-c6ae-4b4b-86b3-7597cf406984

Brenda

Hi,

The drive needs to be a GPT type drive, but is probably MBR...

If it is a new drive you will need to delete the partitions and reboot your machine...

When you are asked to "Initialize" the drive, select GPT instead of MBR...

You can do this in Disk Management..

Then format it as NTFS...

If the drive has data on it, or works on a different machine, don't do what I just suggested... Especially if it is a external drive...

My suggestion is for a new internal drive...

Hi Slance310,

I used the insert link function in the message reply that should have taken him to a Microsoft webpage where there were 7 model numbers for drives that are supported. I'm like.....Huh?  I click the link and get a pretty generic Microsoft page. I navigate to the page in my browser and it's like the compatibility center is missing.  Don't know how that is happening.

Brenda

Hi,

It looks like they have redirected some of their links...

That has been happening lately..

The issue is discussed in the second link you provided, but I still don't know if this particular drive has data on it...