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How to Add Unallocated Space to C Drive in Windows 10/8/7 5 years 48 weeks ago

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How to Merge Unallocated Space in Windows 10 for a Large Partition 6 years 28 weeks ago

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Solved - External Hard Drive Not Recognized 6 years 2 weeks ago

Toshiba external HDD not recognized in windows 10?
Have you ever encountered the same problem? Why is my external hard drive not showing up on Windows 10? What do you do if your Toshiba external hard drive is not recognized?
As a matter of fact, the "external hard drive not showing up" issue can be caused by various reasons, including dead USB ports, driver issues in Windows, using the wrong file system, and so on. Thus, the solutions are varied.
Solution 1 - Check USB Port and Check for the Driver Updates
Solution 2 - Change Drive Letter and Path
Solution 3 - Partitioning the Drive
If you see the external hard drive which is not recognized by Windows is full of "unallocated space," you'll want to create a new partition on it. This will allow Windows and other operating systems to recognize and use this HDD.
However, creating partition will overwrite the original data stored on the external hard drive which is not showing up. Therefore, before creating a new partition, you have to recover its lost data.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a green, professional and all-in-one data recovery software, is recommended here. This professional data recovery program offers wizard-like interfaces as well as simple operations to help users quickly recover lost data from drive that is not recognized by Windows.
After recovering lost data, you can create a new partition on the unallocated space to make Windows recognize your external hard drive.
Solution 4 - Initialize Disk
Solution 5 – Formatting It to NTFS
If your Toshiba external hard drive has been partitioned with the wrong file system, you will also encounter the "external hard drive not recognized" issue. For instance, you may have formatted the drive with the ext4 file system from Linux or the HFS Plus file system from a Mac. Or, you drive file system is damaged and shows as RAW. However, Windows cannot recognize these file systems, thus Windows cannot recognize your external hard drive.

The Best Solution to New Simple Greyed out Issue 6 years 40 weeks ago

“I just assembled a new PC. It has a single 4TB hard drive. During Windows 10 installation, I created a 200gb partition to install to as the C: drive. It auto partitioned my drive into a 500MB system reserved partition, my C: drive, and two unallocated spaces of 1852.69GB and 1678.02GB respectively. The 1852GB space I can create a partition on, but the 1678GB space I cannot do anything with: Cannot create a partition, and cannot combine it with the rest of the unallocated space.”

The above example comes from a forum online and it gives you a real case saying Windows cannot create new partition from unallocated space in Windows 10. Here I will tell you detailed information about this issue. Here let’s take a 3TB hard drive in Windows 10 as an example.

Great But Free External Hard Drive Partition Recovery Tool 7 years 6 weeks ago

On the internet, it’s easy to find lots of people seeking for free external hard drive partition recovery tool. But what is external hard drive? We guess this term is not unfamiliar to the vast majority of computer users. Judging from the name, we can easily find that external hard drive is named with respect to the internal hard disk. The biggest difference between external hard drive and internal hard drive lies in the location where the hard drive is placed.

No Option to Create a New Partition in Disk Management – Solved 5 years 48 weeks ago

Nowadays, disk management becomes a common thing, for example, extend partition, shrink partition, create partition and more. Usually, Windows built-in tool – Disk Management is used to do these operations. However, sometimes you will fail to do partition creation or partition resizing. Here, we will show you one specific example: can’t turn second unallocated space into a simple volume.

For MBR and GPT, most computer users know they are two kinds of disk partition styles. MBR disk can only support up to 2TB hard drive. If the disk uses MBR partition style, the disk space larger than 2TB will show unallocated space. When using it to create a new partition, there will be a failure. But for GPT disk, it can supports 18EB disk maximally. Thus, the best solution is to convert the MBR disk to GPT disk.