i've seen my fair share of these types of topics myself, but i don't think i've seen any with this exact problem.
its usually windows or bios that doesn't see a full drive and thus doesn't allow a full partition. in my case, both see the full drive.
i got six 2tb sata hard drives for my media pc.
installed 5 and copied all the data to them from the old hard drives (3x 1tb, 2x 750gb). 6th one isn't in yet simply because i misplaced my extra screws.
anyway, i'm finishing up reorganizing stuff on the new drives and just noticed how incorrect the capacities on the drives are.
it seems the sizes being displayed for them are assuming they are 1tb drives. for example,
selecting everything one of the drives (1,166 files in 1 folder) reports 900gb in 1166 files. but the drive itself reports 1.69tb used with 123gb free
a different drive has 405gb in 508 files, yet the drive only says 618gb free of 1.81tb
these capacities are seen both on the pc, and when looking at the drives over the network.
the bios reports the full drive size, windows itself is showing the drives as having a capacity of 1.81tb, drive management reports that the partitions are 1.81tb and the pc is using 64bit windows xp. the drives were all slow formatted and formatted using ntfs. all the 2tb drives have this problem, the 4 connected to the motherboard and the 1 attached to an sata expansion card.
somewhere, somehow, about 750gb are lost from each drive, they are being limited to 1024gb for what seems like no reason to me
its usually windows or bios that doesn't see a full drive and thus doesn't allow a full partition. in my case, both see the full drive.
i got six 2tb sata hard drives for my media pc.
installed 5 and copied all the data to them from the old hard drives (3x 1tb, 2x 750gb). 6th one isn't in yet simply because i misplaced my extra screws.
anyway, i'm finishing up reorganizing stuff on the new drives and just noticed how incorrect the capacities on the drives are.
it seems the sizes being displayed for them are assuming they are 1tb drives. for example,
selecting everything one of the drives (1,166 files in 1 folder) reports 900gb in 1166 files. but the drive itself reports 1.69tb used with 123gb free
a different drive has 405gb in 508 files, yet the drive only says 618gb free of 1.81tb
these capacities are seen both on the pc, and when looking at the drives over the network.
the bios reports the full drive size, windows itself is showing the drives as having a capacity of 1.81tb, drive management reports that the partitions are 1.81tb and the pc is using 64bit windows xp. the drives were all slow formatted and formatted using ntfs. all the 2tb drives have this problem, the 4 connected to the motherboard and the 1 attached to an sata expansion card.
somewhere, somehow, about 750gb are lost from each drive, they are being limited to 1024gb for what seems like no reason to me
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