Portable External HDD showing wrong capacity

[sshhiinnee]

Guys,

I recenly bought a Iomega 1TB External HDD, new in the box.

my question is after attaching it to my laptop, and checking properties the free space is only 931gb?

I could understand the hidden files and folders which take space of around 10gb, but missing a massive 70gb, thats very unusual.

please advise.

Cheers.

[nekropunk]

yes it is a lot oof space, but my Mextor backup hdd is about 60gb under the advertised 640gb

[super jumbe]

I am not shore but you may need to format the new disk for maximum space.

[Bulld0g]

Guys,

I recenly bought a Iomega 1TB External HDD, new in the box.

my question is after attaching it to my laptop, and checking properties the free space is only 931gb?

I could understand the hidden files and folders which take space of around 10gb, but missing a massive 70gb, thats very unusual.

please advise.

Cheers.

That's right m8. Manufacturers and microsoft have different sizes 1000mb and 1024mb

Processor or Virtual Storage

? 1 Bit = Binary Digit
? 8 Bits = 1 Byte
? 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
? 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
? 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
? 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
? 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
? 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
? 1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
? 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
? 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
? 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte


Disk Storage

? 1 Bit = Binary Digit
? 8 Bits = 1 Byte
? 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
? 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
? 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
? 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
? 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
? 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
? 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
? 1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
? 1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
? 1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

[bazzw6]

pc's read the size of hd's in mb's gb's which is not the manufactors way of reading a hd but the size is also rounded up by the manufactor so you useually get a few gig missing.
its all technical stuff i'm not really up on.

the other option is that you can use partition magic to read and format the hd and it will update and recognise more of the hd...your system then seeing it more like the size you purchased.

[sshhiinnee]

I am not shore but you may need to format the new disk for maximum space.

Done the formated to no avail any other ideas?

[Delboy07]

Sounds about right. When I first got my 500gb HD it showed a lot less than 500gb. I remember looking it up and it was something to do with the way your pc calculates the amount on the HD. Nothing to be worried about really.