Hard drive in MB instead of GB

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SpectumHD

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Hello, new to the forum.
I have a segate 1tb and a western didgital 1 tb and a 500gb main drive.

I had to reinstall windows because of a virus or somthing that deleted allot of my things i had ln my main 500gb drive.

So on the set up window for wondows 7 i formated all hard drives(evan that thing that says partition) and reinstalled widows on my 500gb. My one 1tb hard drive says i have 936gb of 936gb left. My other hard drive says i have 86mb of 93mb.

My question is why did my hard drive that says 86mb of 93 change from gb to MB and why is there some space taken up even tho iv formated it and looked in side and nothings there??
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Right click on the shaded space for Drive 0. Give it a drive letter.
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HEXiT

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100mb is partitioned off for the boot process. its hidden in windows but revealed if you right click on my computer, then click manage then disk management.
it will be labled as disk 0 system reserved. behind it you will either see your c: partition or raw data space of an unpartitioned drive.
 
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HEXiT

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you dont that part of the drive is system reserved. you will need to create another primary partition in the space after it.
if the drive is only showing 100mb and nothing more then you may have an issue with how you partitioned it off or may be damaged.
do me a favour and take a screen grab of the menu i just directed you to...

open it as described. then hit the prtscrn key on your keyboard.
now open up paint and click anywhere on the white area you would draw on and press ctrl+v
now save it as a jpeg, upload it to a picture host and link it here.
sounds like a lot but should only take you 2 minutes.
 
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You don't! That partition needs to be there. It contains the boot info for the system, It is required to be there.
 
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It is on the 500GB main drive. It just happens to be called 'Recording', You can change that.
Each horizontal line in the bottom part of the Disk Management window is a physical drive.
 
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