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Server 2008 and external drives

Hello,

I purchased a Seagate 4TB drive and plugged it into my 2008 server.  It immediately locks up the screen.  People can still access the machine, but it never seems to let me do anything until I disconnect the drive.  Any ideas?

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Is it Server 2008 Standard or R2?  I'm fairly certain that only R2 will be able to use those.  Also, you're probably going to have to use the disc it came with to format it.  And they will have to be formatted as GPT since that is the only way anything over 2TB is supported.

Try plugging them into a Win 7 or Win 8 workstation first and formatting them using the supplied disc.  Then plug them into the server.
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It is server 2008 with sp2.
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How do you format it as a gpt in windows 7/8?
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Probably easiest to use Seagates software to format and partition it.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/

Scroll down and download DiscWizard.
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I did get it to see the drive after I made the partition GPT; however when I try and format as NTFS, it errors out.  The one thing I noticed that I may try is that if I make it an MBR and delete the volume, it automatically splits the drive into two partitions 2.2GB and 1.6GB.  Couldn't I then plug that into my server and see if I can format them as different partitions, or will that not work?