WD Elements Portable Hard Drive used on xbox 360 when reformated only gives 836GB and not the original 2TB

Maloch1

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My son in his wisdom used my new drive on his xbox which has reformated the drive. When I reclaimed it and tried reformating back to NTFS it only gave me 836GB and not the original 2TB of storage.

Can anyone suggest how I recover the full 2TB

Thnaks
 
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Hey there, Maloch1.

Sorry to hear about the trouble you're having with your drive.
Would you please post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD? Here's how to open it: How to access Disk Management in Windows.
What method did you use when you've reformatted it before? Try reformatting with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens.
Here's a link with instructions on how to partition and format an HDD: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and macOS

Boogieman_WD
Hey there, Maloch1.

Sorry to hear about the trouble you're having with your drive.
Would you please post a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management about the HDD? Here's how to open it: How to access Disk Management in Windows.
What method did you use when you've reformatted it before? Try reformatting with a different computer, to see if the same thing happens.
Here's a link with instructions on how to partition and format an HDD: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and macOS

Boogieman_WD
 
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