Hard drive total space is smaller than it should be

Lupus_Angelici · Nov 29, 2014

So, recently I got myself a new CPU, and mobo, so I decided to do a full reinstallation of windows. I had no problem with my main hard drive, on which Windows is installed (windows 7), but my secondary hard drive (which I use to store my movies, music etc) was 'corrupted'. Windows said I needed to format it, and I did just that, 'cause I could just download the stuff that was on that dirve, but once I did that, my 1TB hard drive was only 200 GB anymore. So yeah, I don't know what happened there, I've looked at the partitions, and it just says that there is 1 partition, and that it's 200 GB large. On a sidenote: There was 200 GB of data stored on the hard drive before it got corrupted and formatted.

Can anyone help with this?
Thanks!

shanky887614 · Nov 29, 2014

have you looked through disk manager? it should show the total size of the disk?

Lupus_Angelici · Nov 29, 2014

It says 232.88 GB of free space, and it should be 1TB.
There is no used space marked on it, the 232.88 GB is the only space there is on that drive.

shanky887614 · Nov 29, 2014

Lupus_Angelici :

click start

right-click on computer

click manage.

on the window that popped up click "disk management"

find your disk in that list then delete the paritions on there then make one.

if this doesnt work then it will have to be through disk part through cmd

Lupus_Angelici · Nov 29, 2014

So, once you delete it, it says that the space isn't allocated.
I create a new partition, and then I can choose how large it will be, but the maximum space I can allocate to the new partition is still only 232.88 GB...
So it didn't really work.

Thanks for trying though

shanky887614 · Nov 29, 2014

click start - run

cmd

in the black window type

diskpart then hit enter

list disk then enter

if it shows 232.88gb in here then i doubt it was a 1tb hdd

Lupus_Angelici · Nov 29, 2014

It says 232 GB, but in the cmd, it also says that only 1024 kb are 'free', on my other drive it says 0 kb is 'free'. I guess this means how much of it is actually partitioned?
When I go to the 'my pc' screen where all me drive stations and hard drives are displayed, it says that there are 232 Gb available. Why would the cmd say the exact opposite then?

And I'm convinced that it was a 1TB hard drive, it says so on the drive itself. "Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive"

So I think something went wrong during the formatting, or before it.

Anything else I can try?

shanky887614 · Nov 29, 2014

Lupus_Angelici :

it is saying there are 232gb of space and 1024kb unallocated.

might be a problem with the drive itself if it says 1tb on the label and diskpart isnt picking it up.

diskpart can format the drives etc when explorer cant

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