2TB Seagate Hard Drive only shows up as 450GB's

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

So my Segate hard drive is 2TB's but something has happened and its 450GB's.
I'm using Windows 8.1 and when I checked Disk Management there was no black line going across my Seagate drive.

reedo_43 · Dec 27, 2016

Interesting...Is it accessible? Pic of disk management

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

reedo_43 :

And I can go into the drive

reedo_43 · Dec 27, 2016

Very strange! Sorry no ideas on that one.

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

Star15 :

The title and your text don't mesh.

Title:
"2TB Segate Hard Drive only shows up as 450GB's"

Text:
"So my Segate hard drive is 450GB's but something has happened and its 450GB's."

Disk Management shows it as a 500GB drive. (465GB actual)
So which is it?

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

USAFRet :

Star15 :

The title and your text don't mesh.

Title:
"2TB Segate Hard Drive only shows up as 450GB's"

Text:
"So my Segate hard drive is 450GB's but something has happened and its 450GB's."

Disk Management shows it as a 500GB drive. (465GB actual)
So which is it?

Its 2TB's and I fixed it

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

Star15 :

USAFRet :

Its 2TB's and I fixed it

Fixed it?
Oh...fixed the text.

Do you have part number for this drive?
Speccy can show that, or open up the case and read it off the drive.

mbarnes86 · Dec 27, 2016

Hi

Are you saying the hard disk was originally 2 TB
You partitioned and formstted it to use all the space

And latter is appears to be 500GB?

There is software which can make a modern sata hard disk pretend to be smaller than it is.
But the parition would probably be corrupted

Does the bios report the hard disk model and size?

Regards
Mike Barnes

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

mbarnes86 :

The BIOS does detect the Hard Drive's full size (2tb)

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

USAFRet :

Star15 :

Fixed it?
Oh...fixed the text.

Do you have part number for this drive?
Speccy can show that, or open up the case and read it off the drive.

Undo the case reveals that its a Seagate barracuda

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

Star15 :

Model number visible?
Not doubting that is in fact a 2TB, but just for verification.

Because that 450GB display is very weird.

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

USAFRet :

ST500DM002

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

Star15 :

500GB Seagate drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST500DM002/dp/B005CT56R6
http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/712/ST500DM002-1BD142
https://www.cnet.com/products/seagate-desktop-hdd-st500dm002-hard-drive-500-gb-sata-6gb-s-st500dm00225pk/specs/

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

USAFRet :

Star15 :

500GB Seagate drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST500DM002/dp/B005CT56R6
http://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/712/ST500DM002-1BD142
https://www.cnet.com/products/seagate-desktop-hdd-st500dm002-hard-drive-500-gb-sata-6gb-s-st500dm00225pk/specs/

But the thing is, it says 2tb on the drive. wtf?

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

Star15 :

USAFRet :

But the thing is, it says 2tb on the drive. wtf?

Thats just a label.
Where did you buy it?

ex_bubblehead · Dec 27, 2016

We had a member not too long ago ran into the same scam on E-Bay. Bought what he thought was a 4TB drive, but was actually a relabeled 500GB drive. To a practiced eye the label was a rather bad inkjet job.

USAFRet · Dec 27, 2016

ex_bubblehead :

Yup.
I remember that one.

Star15 · Dec 27, 2016

So I found out what had happened, the drive was 500GB's not 2TB's even though the box and amazon listing said it was 2TB's, if it was not for you I wouldn't of found that out.

2TB Seagate Hard Drive only shows up as 450GB's

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