The capacity-alert is displayed in other cases exactly because Windows Explorer "sees" the complete logical drive (which is over 2 TB) but the physical disk capacity is much smaller. Please note that the PARTITIONS (and their length) is completely different thing. This is (divided by 1024 x 1024 x 1024) results the 1492 GB - which is far less than the 6 TB and this triggers the capacity-alert.ġ) complete disk capacity (detected by Hard Disk Sentinel)Ģ) the disk capacity reported by this WMIC methodģ) the disk capacity displayed in Windows Disk Management Hard Disk Sentinel detected (so the system reported) that the corresponding 6 TB hard disk has 3131036370 sectors with 512 bytes/sector. I just suggested to try checking this "wmic" method - as this is the easiest way to display what Windows sees, how it can access the complete hard disk. If WMI is available then Hard Disk Sentinel can use it too - just to be sure. This is why Hard Disk Sentinel can work even if WMI is not accessible (for example on very old systems) or disabled. I can confirm that by default Hard Disk Sentinel detects the physical geometry directly from the hard disk drive itself (not by using WMIC). Thanks for the report and thanks for the information. Is their a solution to this compatibility issue? I also asked Paragon for help, but their response was that since all was well in Windows Explorer and Disk Management then everything is fine on their end. Disk Management reports that the disk has a total capacity of 5589 GB.Ī test report was sent to the developer but I have yet to hear anything from them as to a solution to this compatibility issue. However, Hard Disk Sentinel (v 4.71) tells me that the detected total capacity of 1492 GB is not correct and that the capacity should be 5588 GB and that if I continue to use the drive then I could experience file system corruption and/or data loss. Disk Management recognizes the drive as 6TB and reports that all 8 partitions are healthy. All partitions are fully readable and writeable through Windows Explorer. It was initialized, partitioned, and formatted using AOMEI Partition Assistant 6.0 WINPE bootable disc. I have the drive partitioned into 8 partitions. The drive is in GPT format (obviously) with 512 byte sectors. I also updated the firmware in my BIOS so that the BIOS would recognize the full 6TB as well. I bought Paragon's GPT Loader so that the full 6TB would be recognized by Windows XP. I use Windows XP Pro SP3 on my computers.Ī couple of months back I installed a 6TB WD internal hard drive in one of my computers.
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