Bought a new Terabyte HDD.. Lost 200gb ?

i realize that that its not suppost to be exaclty 1000 gb, but i didnt expect it to be at 812gb.. is it normal to lose that much?

Should be about 930GB-950GB.

Right click on My Computer and click Manage. See what is has for that HDDunder Disk Management

that is off id return it for another to ensure you didnt buy damaged goods

the recycle bin also takes up some space, usually about 10% of the hardrive... so check the quoto for the recycle bin, and reduce it if you want more space.

right click -> properties and change the settings

Nearly 200 is a bit too much. My 1TB hard drive is 931 GB.

my 1Tb hardrive has 931G in total 800G seems far to low and when did this system of falsely naming memory devices start? johnny27

Lower the percentage of System Restore. It allocates 10-15%. Which is WAY TO MUCH. I have mine set to about 2% which is less than 5GBs. It should probably be less. This is assuming you have Vista.

XP takes less. Im not sure what microsoft was thinking when they did. This happened when I bought a 750GB. I had 550GB and thought WTF?!? Lowered my percent for saving System Restore settings and it added about 100GB. Crazy stuff.

Do this through Command Prompt.

EDIT: 1. Go to Start
2. In the search field, type: cmd
3. Right click the "cmd" item and select "Run as administrator" Click OK for any User Account Control prompts.
4. At the command prompt, type the following (copy & paste for accuracy):

vssadmin list shadowstorage

5. Press Enter

The above command will list the current amount of Used, Allocated and Maximum allowed storage size for the Volume Shadow Storage on your computer.

To resize the amount of disk space that Vista allocates to shadow storage, type the following exactly as shown, press enter when done:

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=2GB

Note: The above example assumes that the root drive for your system is C:

You should receive a message that informs you that the command was successful.
To change the maximum allocation, replace 2GB with your preferred amount (eg: 600MB or 5GB).

Lower the percentage of System Restore. It allocates 10-15%. Which is WAY TO MUCH. I have mine set to about 2% which is less than 5GBs. It should probably be less. This is assuming you have Vista.

XP takes less. Im not sure what microsoft was thinking when they did. This happened when I bought a 750GB. I had 550GB and thought WTF?!? Lowered my percent for saving System Restore settings and it added about 100GB. Crazy stuff.

Do this through Command Prompt.

EDIT: 1. Go to Start
2. In the search field, type: cmd
3. Right click the "cmd" item and select "Run as administrator" Click OK for any User Account Control prompts.
4. At the command prompt, type the following (copy & paste for accuracy):

vssadmin list shadowstorage

5. Press Enter

The above command will list the current amount of Used, Allocated and Maximum allowed storage size for the Volume Shadow Storage on your computer.

To resize the amount of disk space that Vista allocates to shadow storage, type the following exactly as shown, press enter when done:

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=2GB

Note: The above example assumes that the root drive for your system is C:

You should receive a message that informs you that the command was successful.
To change the maximum allocation, replace 2GB with your preferred amount (eg: 600MB or 5GB).

SgtMoreless

Just did this to my laptop and added 20GBs to a 500GB HDD of free space. I have also done this to my desktop and added 100GB of free space, as I said before.

Manufacturers use units of 1000 kilobytes per Megabyte

PCs use units of 1024 kilobytes per Megabyte

Should be about 930GB-950GB.

Right click on My Computer and click Manage. See what is has for that HDDunder Disk Management

kilerchese

Manufacturers use units of 1000 kilobytes per Megabyte

PCs use units of 1024 kilobytes per Megabyte

kilerchese

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Lower the percentage of System Restore. It allocates 10-15%. Which is WAY TO MUCH. I have mine set to about 2% which is less than 5GBs. It should probably be less. This is assuming you have Vista.

XP takes less. Im not sure what microsoft was thinking when they did. This happened when I bought a 750GB. I had 550GB and thought WTF?!? Lowered my percent for saving System Restore settings and it added about 100GB. Crazy stuff.

Do this through Command Prompt.

EDIT: 1. Go to Start
2. In the search field, type: cmd
3. Right click the "cmd" item and select "Run as administrator" Click OK for any User Account Control prompts.
4. At the command prompt, type the following (copy & paste for accuracy):

vssadmin list shadowstorage

5. Press Enter

The above command will list the current amount of Used, Allocated and Maximum allowed storage size for the Volume Shadow Storage on your computer.

To resize the amount of disk space that Vista allocates to shadow storage, type the following exactly as shown, press enter when done:

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=2GB

Note: The above example assumes that the root drive for your system is C:

You should receive a message that informs you that the command was successful.
To change the maximum allocation, replace 2GB with your preferred amount (eg: 600MB or 5GB).

SgtMoreless

and i just had this hard drive put in.. the first time i format it to install windows.. it said it was "unable to complete format" or something.. the 2nd time it worked.. any one no a solution? i do have an option to delete a partition StealthKnife

OK, so it looks like when that error occurred, only 800GB of your 1.5TB drive was successfully partitioned. There is a second 250GB unformatted partition and about 400GB of disk with no partitioning.

If you want to try to fix this by making a single 1.5TB partition without reinstalling Windows:

1) Make sure you are patched to at least XP Service Pack 3

2) Download and burn a copy of gParted, a good, free partitioning utility. Boot from the gparted CD, Delete the unformatted 250GB partition and move/stretch out your 800GB partition to cover all 1.5TB.

Disk partitioning can be a finicky thing, so I won't say this is guaranteed to work. But aside from starting from scratch once again - and hoping this was a fluke - its about as good a chance as you'll have.

[QUOTE="StealthKnife"]and i just had this hard drive put in.. the first time i format it to install windows.. it said it was "unable to complete format" or something.. the 2nd time it worked.. any one no a solution? i do have an option to delete a partition chefkw

OK, so it looks like when that error occurred, only 800GB of your 1.5TB drive was successfully partitioned. There is a second 250GB unformatted partition and about 400GB of disk with no partitioning.

If you want to try to fix this by making a single 1.5TB partition without reinstalling Windows:

1) Make sure you are patched to at least XP Service Pack 3

2) Download and burn a copy of gParted, a good, free partitioning utility. Boot from the gparted CD, Delete the unformatted 250GB partition and move/stretch out your 800GB partition to cover all 1.5TB.

Disk partitioning can be a finicky thing, so I won't say this is guaranteed to work. But aside from starting from scratch once again - and hoping this was a fluke - its about as good a chance as you'll have.

i do have the service packs.. teh strange thing is i only have 1TB not 1.5TB i have no idea why it was that much! StealthKnife

Well, if it was explicitly stated that you bought a 1TB drive, consider it your lucky day because Windows clearly detects 1.5TB.

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StealthKnife

[QUOTE="johnny27"]my 1Tb hardrive has 931G in total 800G seems far to low and when did this system of falsely naming memory devices start? jasperrussell

what i heard was that manufactures use bits not bytes and bits are in normal metric (1000 bits = 1kilobit) but then everything gets bytes put onto it (1024 bytes =1kbytes). but yeah same principle 1,000,000,000,000 bits = 1terabits or 976 Gb (around that)

Nearly 200 is a bit too much. My 1TB hard drive is 931 GB.

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