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Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be slightly |
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(10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you need not Fdisk, |
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but GPT programs. |
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пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>: |
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> I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my |
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> surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there |
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> anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in |
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> Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I bought |
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> it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty until 2022 |
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> and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the WD web |
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> site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get the HD |
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> exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any technical |
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> wheezes first. |
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> Thanks |
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> Robin |
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> Robin Atwood. |
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> "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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> Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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> from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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