[Leica] Computer Help

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

OK so your hardware has previously worked to let you use those larger
drives in that enclosure.
That narrows the complications a lot.
Can you take a look in your disk management and see what the partitions
look like in the other larger physical disks? If those are definitely
showing single partitions containing the whole 3TB or more, you know that
this is only an issue with that individual physical disk. A full partition
and then full format is where I would start.

By the way that's a lot of Terabytes of files!


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 19 December 2013 07:48, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Hi, Geoff -
>
> I still have the Drobo.  I just replaced one of its 3TB drives with a 4TB
> one and am switching the 3TB to my JBOD enclosure.  It is just an enclosure
> with no software.  The drives slide in and out.  Right now I have the Drobo
> with 4 4TB installed.  Two JBOD enclosures - they each have 1 3TB and 3 2TB
> drives.  I'm replacing one of the 2TB drives in the enclosure with the 3TB
> drive that came out of the Drobo.  I had counted on having all of the 3TB
> to back-up my scans.  I didn't have this problem when I installed the other
> two 3TB drives in the enclosures.  Everything is exactly the same so I
> can't figure out why it's refusing to let me allocate half a terabyte of
> space!
> I do wish somebody could come and sit at my computer to figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tina
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Yep, I was trying to provide some sort of practical response based on
> what
> > was in Tina's query. Many users don't want to have to deal with
> partitions
> > and drivers and the like. Living with the 2TB limit might be the simplest
> > and no risk outcome. Sitting at the machine with Tina would be the ideal
> > assistance plan of course.
> >  Tina is talking about a non-bootable disk I think. I assume in an
> external
> > enclosure. At one point Tina had a Drobo unit ( which can deal with the
> > bigger disks of course) but maybe no longer?
> >
> > I've never used any HDD's larger than 2TB as yet so I'll bow out.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 19 December 2013 06:20, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 12/18/13, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I assume that you have Windows 7 (or Vista)? This can't be
> > > > done with earlier windows than that.
> > > > For whatever its worth, my understanding is that 2 TB is a
> > > > limit due to the  way windows deals with partitions.
> > >
> > > It's a limit for some partition types, but not a limit on physical
> drive
> > > size.  The worst case is that you may have to use multiple partitions
> on
> > > the same physical unit....  As I understand it,  most 7 boxes can
> handle
> > > physical drives up to something outrageous like 256 TB.
> > >
> > > I sub-partition drives routinely as it makes it somewhat easier for me
> to
> > > organize the system.  I've never had any kind of issue with this at
> all.
> > >
> > > The partition reservation thing may be a limit in the JBOD box firmware
> > or
> > > the indexing routines, neither of which I have any experience with.
> > >
> > >
> > > R. Clayton McKee
> > > PhotoJournalist
> > > from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> > >
> > >
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