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Expanded, Still Not Showing?


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I expanded my drive from 10TB to 100TB. However, under Windows Explorer "My PC", it still shows at 10TB. I've practically reached the 10TB limit so I can't copy over any files without triggering the "the volume is low on space" warning, even though it's actually 100TB!

 

How do I make Windows Explorer the newly created 100TB drive?

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Open up Disk Management, and extend the partition.

However, DO NOT make the partition more than 60TB. Ever.  

If you do, you may (will) lose the ability to run CHKDSK passes on the drive. 

The reason for this, is that there appears to be a Windows bug which causes VSS to fail on large drives (larger than 63TB).  And since CHKDSK heavily relies on VSS... that means CHKDSK will fail to run, as well. 

You... can pool the partitions together, though. 

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27 minutes ago, Christopher (Drashna) said:

Open up Disk Management, and extend the partition.

However, DO NOT make the partition more than 60TB. Ever.  

If you do, you may (will) lose the ability to run CHKDSK passes on the drive. 

The reason for this, is that there appears to be a Windows bug which causes VSS to fail on large drives (larger than 63TB).  And since CHKDSK heavily relies on VSS... that means CHKDSK will fail to run, as well. 

You... can pool the partitions together, though. 

 

I did extend it to about 16TB. After that, it says I need to change my cluster size. How can I do that without reformatting?

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Oh, you're on 4kb clusters, then. 

 

You can't.  The cluster size is set when you format the drive, and determines how data is broken up. 
There are tools that can do this, but with CloudDrive, that would create a huge amount of data activity. 

The best options may be to ... pool multiple partitions together, or create a new drive. 

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