SKYBOX F5 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 3TB

[BARRY1962]

Hello can anyone help me please, i have had my skybox f5 now for a couple of months and yesterday i bought an external hard drive a seagate expasion 3 TB, it's plugged in to the f5 box but is only showing up as this.
VOLUME UDA1
TOTAL SIZE 746.50 G byte
FREE SIZE 746.32 G byte
REC SIZE 746.21 G byte
FILE SYSTEM NTFS

why is it only showing up as a smaller hard drive than the 3 TB ?
i am new to anything technical like this but i have been trying to search the internet , message boards, forums, to try understand and learn but cannot find an answer, any detailed help or advice is appreciated. thanks.

[Aletank]

You need to Format it in FAT32, Windows won't do this, I used the below program
Partitioning tool For home MiniAide Fat32 Formatter Home | MiniAide

[BARRY1962]

thank you for the reply, i will go and see if i can manage it, as i'm no techie

[cactikid]

think even the vu range work at 2tb max,3 is very big.

[BARRY1962]

think even the vu range work at 2tb max,3 is very big.

Hi yes i think it might be to big, i tried to partition and format with the link aletank provided but as it starts and reboots my laptop it just seems to freeze the laptop on reboot . i left it 20 mins and even tried re formatting 4 times but with the same results. thanks anyway

[Aletank]

You should be able to format it though - maybe try another Fat32 format program, just google fat32 format program or I'm sure someone else here can recommend a alternative program.

[BARRY1962]

ok thank you i was trying another program, i managed to convert to fat 32 but the hard drive isn't showing up when i plug it back into the f5 box despite rebooting both the f5 and the hard drive, i'll keep trying to figure out why.
if i plug the hard drive into laptop it does say FILE SYSTEM FAT 32 FREE SPACE 2.72 TB so i have no idea what to do now.. ty

[Aletank]

Sorry Barry, I can't help you, It's all fairly new to me, I have a 1TB HDD

[ferarrifeet]

i think once you've formatted to fat32 you have to create a simple partition then it should show up as a drive.

[Aletank]

On my 1TB drive I just formatted it to Fat32 & it worked

[BARRY1962]

Ok thanks everyone i managed to do it but only if i converted it back to NTFS , i did create a partition though.