Want 1TB Windows partition on 3TB internal drive

I was able to successful finally get a Windows (Boot Camp) partition on my 3TB internal drive (see this thread), but it allocated 2TB to Windows. Loner T explained why this was, but said that it was possible to get 1TB for Mac OSX, 1TB for Windows, and the last 1TB as ColdStorage for Mac OSX. I would like to do this, if anyone (Loner T?) has the instructions).
Also is it possible to link the two Mac OSX partitions so that it looks and acts as a single drive. (I am assuming that ColdStorage does that by default, but if not, my question stands.)
Thanks in advance so any information anyone can provide.
Dale

I started over.
> diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Internal                3.0 TB     disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                  Apple_HFS LaCie                   1.0 TB     disk1s1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS 4TB_Seagate             4.0 TB     disk2s1
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk3
   1:                  Apple_HFS 4TB-03                  4.0 TB     disk3s1
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *64.0 GB    disk4
   1:               Windows_NTFS MOVIES                  64.0 GB    disk4s1
> diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
> sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 5858853952      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
5859263592     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
5860533128           7
5860533135          32         Sec GPT table
5860533167           1         Sec GPT header
> sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: MBR at sector 0
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1
           2 1953525166      1 MBR part 175
Note that disk1 onwards are all external. I can unplug them if it helps.
Regards,
Dale

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