[Coco] Need help thanks in advance

[Mike Delyea]

As far as I know you will have to start over from scratch.  Backup any data
you want to keep and wipe the drive.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 9:49 PM Joshua Harper via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi there when I was able to install Windows 7 myself I did not let it put
> a partition at all you can use the whole hard drive for windows seven I’m
> guessing they went in the head and let windows make a partition when they
> did the install is there any way of getting rid of the partition to open up
> the whole hard drive thanks again
>
> > On Oct 23, 2020, at 8:43 PM, Mike Delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In Windows, you cannot have a partition larger than 2TB unless certain
> > conditions are met.  The partition must be initialized by using the GUID
> > partition table (GPT) partitioning scheme.  Furthermore, you must have a
> > UEFI BIOS if you intend to boot from it.  A regular MBR partition and
> > non-UEFI BIOS won't work.  You would have to start over from scratch.
> >
> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 9:28 PM Joshua Harper via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys I know this is off-topic but didn’t know who else to ask I just
> >> had my Windows 7 PC fixed with a brand new 4 TB hard drive put in it
> with
> >> Windows 7 ultimate when I got back my PC under properties of a hard
> drive
> >> it showing capacity 1.97 available hard drive space how can I get back
> the
> >> rest of my hard drive space the other 2 TB apparently they put a
> partition
> >> on it I believe is there any way of taking off the partition where I can
> >> get the whole 4 TB access again thanks I appreciate all your help
> >>
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