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    I have problems with external hard drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Thundr, Jul 3, 2012.

  1. Thundr

    Thundr Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a 2TB external hard drive. I need to reformat it because one of the Geniuses at Apple store formatted the drive in such a way that it was divided into three and each of those three can only hold up to 1/3 of the 2TB storage. So I need to make it so that it's just one big 2TB, not 2TB divided into three little ones.

    But I already have a lot of things stored in the 2TB, and it seems like the only solution would be to buy another 2TB and then move it to the new 2TB and reformat the old 2TB.

    Would there be a cheaper way? Apple Genius wouldn't do it for me. Could it work if I tried to get another Genius to do it?
     
    Thundr, Jul 3, 2012
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  2. tijo

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    Maybe gparted would be able to merge all three partitions without loosing data, but there is always a risk.
     
    tijo, Jul 3, 2012
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