EaseUS Partition Manager and a 5 TB external disk. I started out trying to create 5 one TB partitions and there's no stopping it! How is this possible?
I read that and it appears that I'm doing everything I should be doing but none of the numbers make any sense. You can see from my pic that the drive is 5 TB but as I partition it, the space listed by both EaseUS and Windows starts to exceed the capacity of the disk.
I tried again since I took the pic, stopping at 5 one TB partitions but when I tried to copy about 50 gig to one of them, I got a message saying try again, you need more space. So none of the numbers can be trusted. Almost a TB of free space is listed on the same dialog as the error.
The article doesn't address why I can create 10 one TB partitions on a 5 TB disk. The only explanation I can think of is that the software sucks and Windows is accepting what it wrote on the disk without totaling it up.
You were right, it was my screwup. I also tried AOMEI and I noticed that no units are specified (no drop-down to select units) so when you enter the size of a partition, you have to write 1TB otherwise it will assume megabytes.
>Now on to partitioning
Yes, I'm doing this because I don't think my media player can see a drive larger than 1TB. Having all 7,000 movies on two permanently connected disks will save me constantly changing them out to find what I want.
The Documentary category alone currently spans 3 1TB disks.
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Originally Posted by Reverend
