I've bought an external hard drive with a 300gb drive but it is partitioned and 20ish gb is not available. Do I need the partition and if I delete it will I get the full 300gb capacity? I am only using it as a back up to store my files and will not be mounting an OS on it.
External Hard Drive Partition?
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Is the drive rated at 300 gigabytes? If so, you'll never see the missing space. HDDs are rated with a funky system that makes you think they're larger than they are. A 300 "gigabyte" disk is 300 billion bytes. However, there is not 1000 kilobytes in a megabyte, there's 1024. That continues up to that size. In a 300 "gigabyte" disk actually contains 279.396772 gigabytes.
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Thanks for the help. I've had another look and don't think it's partitioned after all but here's the link anyway in case I'm wrong (and I want to see if the link works)!!!
It's Disk 3 - Storage
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/416/storagewb1.jpg
It's Disk 3 - Storage
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/416/storagewb1.jpg
That would be a 300gb hard drive
and no partition?
