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i have 2 External disks ( 2 TB each) i formatted them on windows 7 laptop then after that i put them on the Accounting server ( windows server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2) first they didn't show in my computer so i assigned drive letters to them so now both Hard disks show in disk management as NTFS but in my computer they show as RAW should i worry about that or no ? ***i can write to the disk normally.

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  • Are the disks formated in GPT or MBR? This article may be worth checking (hotfix to add large disk support to Windows 2003) link
    – Daniel K
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 8:05
  • thank you for answering, i dont know i pressed properties and volumes but it didnt show if it is formatted as MBR OR GPT
    – TeeJay
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 8:29
  • I would be careful using them for any unique data until you resolve this. Maybe put on back on the laptop to check the disk type?
    – Daniel K
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 9:21
  • they are both empty now still didnt back up any data would you suggest i format them on the server ( EXFAT) ? without taking any risks?
    – TeeJay
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 9:29
  • If they are empty then, yes, I would reformat on the 2003 server using NTFS, but be aware of the limit of 2TB on this OS (see above KB). Use DISKPART and make sure that you change the 'partition style' if it is not MBR.
    – Daniel K
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 9:35

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Thanks to Daniel's help, I just removed both HDDS and then reinserted them. They gave the correct format.

It seems that after giving them drive letters you need to remove them first, then insert.

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  • I guess people didn't want to see this as an answer / solution to the problem, which it definitely is. You could've also asked David to post the solution himself, but it's fine this way, too.
    – slhck
    Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 17:48

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