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

[tuppers360]

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

Thanks helped me!!

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 B = 931.322574615478515625 GiB.



The International System of Units classifies "tera" as 10^12. Windows incorrectly uses GB in place of GiB.

I thought that system was only made up because of manufacturers using the 1000>1 instead of 1024 > 1 rule. Somehow it meant the measurement that been getting used for ever was changed from GB to GiB and MB to MiB etc, so that manufacturers could keep on using GB......stupid *****

 

[osc89er]

1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 B = 931.322574615478515625 GiB.

The International System of Units classifies "tera" as 10^12. Windows incorrectly uses GB in place of GiB.

But that's not actually right. The problem is that computing sizes have been quoted in 2^x numbers due to it being digital/binary.

In computing they created a new system of measurement for their own use. It is the hard drive manufacturers who are breaking this system by choosing to use metric in order to inflate the apparent size of their products.

 

[memyselfandi]

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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

Hows repartitioning the drive into two parts going to help you if the drive fails? If the drive dies then both of the partitions are on the same physical disk and hence you will loose both of them ...

 

[Energize]

But that's not actually right. The problem is that computing sizes have been quoted in 2^x numbers due to it being digital/binary.

In computing they created a new system of measurement for their own use. It is the hard drive manufacturers who are breaking this system by choosing to use metric in order to inflate the apparent size of their products.

Hard drive capacity is inherently 10^x not 2^x because of the way the data is structured so it makes sense to measure capacity that way, same goes for network bandwidth and optical media. The SI already has a unit for 2^x but Microsoft refuse to use it which makes hard drive capacity seem less than it is.