WD 3 TB HD

[izzyinstl]

I have an e machines el1352G-01w and have replaced the Hitachi hardrive with the wd 3TB. The problem is the capacity of the drive is (2 partitions) partition 1 is 1.99TB and partition 2 is 746GB. So I am losing over 1/4 of a TB.

Does this sound correct?

I am running windows 7 64bit

 

[kenrivers]

From what I have read that seems to be common. Also note that the actual capacity of the drive is not 3TB but closer to 2.72TB.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1442/11/
http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=28855.0
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3TB+in+TiB

 

[mightymaxio]

These are all 3tb drives. Windows has a different way of actually computing the amount of storage with 1024 per gigabyte than 1000 per gigabyte that the drive manufacturers use. So the actual usable storage space is going to be lower than what it says because of it.

 

[fzabkar]

From the horse's mouth ...

Storage Capacity Measurement Standards [194563]:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=194563

Drive displays a smaller capacity than the indicated size on the drive label:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/615

Difference between Gibibyte and Gigabyte:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

 

[MidnightDistort]

Go into disk management and check the overall disk capacity.

You can also add the 2 hard drive 'bytes' together that should at least be at
3,000,000,000,000bytes

or, 2.72TB

MS uses a different measurement system for drive units so it would appear that you would have less when in fact you get the exact amount and usually a little more. If you looked at a file say 150MB but you see: 157,286,400 bytes which is the actual size, so technically the file isn't 150MB but about 157MB.

You still get the full 3TB usage, the 2.72TB your seeing is actually 3.0TB. It's like the side mirror on the car 'images are closer then they appear', You have more space on the hard drive then it appears.