is 1T WD only 744 GB or have I been had?

Metaliron

Metaliron

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Hey

Bought a 1 TB WD my book from the member's market on here but it only has a capacity of 744 GB now that I've received it and connected it to my pc... have I just been had or is this normal (doubtful!)...

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Sorted now... It was a 1 TB drive with a hidden partition... thanks for the help!
 
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It wouldn't be a 750GB. If you're only losing 6GB that would be brilliant.

If it says 1TB then you should at least have a 5-10% reduction, not 25%
 
Seems to be the correct number for a 1TB drive.
Run a smart check on it?

Sound like it might be faulty unless the HDD inside has been switched and whoever you bought it from had forgotten about it.

You're 100% sure that theres no extra partitions?
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Seems to be the correct number for a 1TB drive.
Run a smart check on it?

Sound like it might be faulty unless the HDD inside has been switched and whoever you bought it from had forgotten about it.

You're 100% sure that theres no extra partitions?
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hmm I'm starting to think it is a 1 TB drive now, I checked in windows and it seems like there is 200 gb in an empty partition somehow...

What is smart check? and how do I repartition this drive?

Thanks for the help btw guys.
 
Just been looking on the net. And there is no faults with them showing a lot less etc.
I think you have a partition or unseen data lurking somewhere.

Also i have a 500 gig external HD and i lost 35gig. Theres no way its a 750 and you have only lost 6 or 7 gig :)
 
What, version of windows are you running?.

If it's Vista then follow these steps.
Start. Control Panel. Administrative Tools. Computer Management. Storage. Disk Management. You should then be able to see all the drives attached. Locate the 1Tb and check whether it is showing a single Active Primary Partition. If it is and still shows you only have about 750Gb then return the disk.

If it shows an Active Primary Partition and a Logical drive of about 230Gb then you need to delete the logical drive and then re-format the entire drive as ntfs. Or you could just leave the logical drive and use it like a normal drive after formating it.

If you do decide to get rid of it then right click on the logical partition select delete volume, accept the warnings about data loss Once you have done that and it finishes go back to what should now be an active partition of about 960Gb. Format the entire drive to ntfs.

However it might be an idea to repartition the drive, I usally just chop mine in half. remember hard drives do fail, and to loose 1Tb of data is a killer ( I know from a nasty experience with an external drive)

Hope this hasn't been too confusing.


Kelvin
 
My 1TB hard drive, i remember flipping on how 70gb was missing. Its not right they advertsie as 1tb when they cheat and work in 1000gb instead of 1024gb.

Anyway, glad you sorted it.
 
1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 B = 931.322574615478515625 GiB. ;)

sturmtruppe said:
My 1TB hard drive, i remember flipping on how 70gb was missing. Its not right they advertsie as 1tb when they cheat and work in 1000gb instead of 1024gb.
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The International System of Units classifies "tera" as 10^12. Windows incorrectly uses GB in place of GiB.
 
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