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    i've got a new 4tb external drive and when i mount it on my MBP it will mount 2.2tb, then all the leftover space mounts separately as a second drive.

    anybody ever run into this problem or know of a fix?

    why even sell 4tb drives if we can only mount 2.2tb at a time?

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    • only on your MBP -- do you get 4th on another system? perhaps it's a RAID (2x2TB drives)Gnash
    • It might be partitioned. Check Disk Utility to perhaps make it a single one again.monospaced
    • yeah gnash i think it's an old MBP (2009)scarabin
    • sounds like what mono said. the older OS's had a 2TB volume limit. but that goes back to OS 10 - 10.1Gnash
    • if it's an old OS and you don't want to update it then you need to partition the drive into smaller volumesGnash
    • i'm running yosemite but i think it may be a hardware limitation. old chip or somethingscarabin
    • when u run Disk Utility on it, do you see 2 volumes? what is listed as the format type - HFS or FAT32?Gnash
    • ended up putting it inside my hackintosh. seems to be working fine therescarabin
    • odd. 'be curious to know if you ever figure it outGnash
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