This tutorial will show you how to use the Seagate DiscWizard application to utilize
the full capacity of a three terabyte or larger drive in a Windows 7 and a Windows 8 Operating System.
After installing a hard drive with more than two Terra bytes of storage capacity in a system
without a U.E.F.I. BIOS, your drive's partition will look similar to the one shown in this
representation of the Windows Disk Management screen.
You may have a reserved partition.
Your C: volume will contain up to two Terabytes of partitioned storage space, and, the remaining
portion of the drive's capacity will be unallocated and un-partitioned.
This video will illustrate how to use DiscWizard's Disk Management utilities to allocate, partition,
and format the extended capacity of your drive.
To begin, launch DiscWizard.
After DiscWizard opens, scroll to the lower portion of the page.
Navigate to the Disk Management section and click on the Seagate Extended Capacity Manager link.
After the Extended Capacity Manager opens, you will see a graphical representation of
your drive's native capacity and the extended unallocated storage space.
To begin the process of preparing the unallocated storage space so that it can be partitioned
and formatted, click on the Apply button.
The system will prepare the unallocated space and install a device driver that will support
the extended capacity.
This process takes only a few moments to complete.
When the process has finished, click on the Close button.
The Extended Capacity Manager will close and you will return to the DiscWizard Main Menu.
The next step is to partition, format and set the drive letter for the extended capacity
of the drive.
To continue, click on the Add New Disk link in the Disk Management section of the page.
The Add New Disk Wizard will launch.
To continue, click on the Not Initialized extended capacity disk with the AVD designation
prefixing the drive's model number to select it.
Then click Next.
On the Initialization Options page you will be required to select an initialization method.
The MBR layout, which is the default for Windows XP and Vista, will support a partition size
of up to two terabytes.
If the extended capacity of your drive is larger than two terabytes, and you select
the MBR layout, the maximum partition size will be limited to two terabytes and any remaining
capacity will be unused.
The GPT layout will support larger partitions, however this option will only be available
for Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems.
To continue, select the type of initialization layout you want to use by clicking on that
method's Radio button.
Then click Next.
The next step is to define the new partition's settings and, to partition and format the
unallocated storage space of the drive.
To begin the partitioning process, first, double click on the gray status bar.
The Partition Settings dialog box will open,
You may use either the drop down boxes or the slider bar to create more than one partition,
however in this tutorial we will make the remaining drive capacity a single partition.
Make sure that the File System Type and the Partition Letter are correct for your system
then, enter a name for the new partition.
After you've configured your partition and created a label, click on the Accept button to continue.
On the Create Partitions page you will see a graphical representation of the new partition's layout.
You may, if you wish, click on the Cancel button to return to the Partition Settings
page and modify the partition layout.
Click Next to continue.
On the Summary page, you will be provided with a before and after comparison of the new partition.
On the Summary page, you will be provided with a before and after comparison of the new partition..
When you're satisfied with the partition layout, click Proceed to begin the partitioning process.
You will be able to view the partitioning progress as it occurs.
And you will be notified when the operation has been completed.
Click the OK button to finalize the process.
These are all the steps required to use the DiscWizard's Disk Management utilities to
allocate, partition and format the extended capacity of your drive.
This illustration shows the Windows Disk Management view of the hard drive storage in the system
after DiscWizard's Disk Management has added the device driver support.
Disc 0 and Disk 1 is the same physical device.
Disk 0's two terabyte partition is supported by the operating system.
Disc 1's, one terabyte partition is supported by a device driver.
The device driver causes the partition on Disk 1 to be represented as a second drive
by the operating system, however you may access and use this drive just as you would any other
hard drive connected to your computer.
This concludes the DiscWizard Extended Capacity Support tutorial.
For more information on Seagate DiscWizard please see the rest of the DiscWizard tutorials.