So after a full reassembly of my PC with new parts and good shit, I noticed that my 1TB hard drive is now 931GB and my 2TB hard drive is 1.81TB. Before the reassembly/remake, they each showed the correct capacities.
I'd just like to know why I magically lost space for potential [del]porn[/del] games and if there is a way to fix it. Thanks.
It's because HDD makers use 1 GB = 1000mb instead of 1024 which is the correct way.
Indeed. That is the actual capacity of your drive, unfortunately its just not quite as advertised. In reality your byte multiples are based on powers of two rather than ten (so like Calkkuna said its actually 1024, rather than 1000). Its also in part to the fact that Window's file system (NTFS) takes up some space for its metadata purposes, although it doesn't take up [I]that[/I] much space. I don't know why your hard drives were showing the "full" capacities earlier.
But why would it say the correct thing before then change to what it is now?
[QUOTE=ColossalSoft;41392900]But why would it say the correct thing before then change to what it is now?[/QUOTE]
Money.
[QUOTE=vexx21322;41393316]Money.[/QUOTE]
What.
The easiest way to find out if there is space missing is to use a partition manager. Sometimes there is unallocated space, if not then that's the actual size of your drives
I've never seen a 931GB hard drive before. Even with the whole difference in measurement, it should say 1000GB. Going to look into it.
Don't be too worried about it.
I have it here as well, even on my external hard drive, both are listed as 1TB (1000 GB).
Huge ass example incoming
[T]http://i.imgur.com/ZCC5WW0.jpg[/T]
[editline]11th July 2013[/editline]
Oh this just helped my find out my dads computer is still running.
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