1tb Hard Drive says it's full but it isn't

[Dr_Heath_]

So I have a second 1tb WD Black hard drive where I store all my games and files but I can no longer move anything into the hard-drive even tho windows says I have 693gb of free space. There seems to be a limit of 237gb.

I reformatted but I still have these problems. Should I RMA it? Or should I convert it from FAT32 to NTFS? (Last resort as I also dual boot with OSX and use that to transfer files across from each other).

I did a sector scan and it came up as all good so I'm pretty confused about what's going on here.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Dr_Heath_,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive. 🙁

So, this should be your secondary drive right?(you have a dual boot primary one)

Is the whole drive allocated(Disk Management)? Could you post a screenshot of Disk Management? In case it is not, you will need to allocate that.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Dr_Heath_]

Hi there Dr_Heath_,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive. 🙁

So, this should be your secondary drive right?(you have a dual boot primary one)

Is the whole drive allocated(Disk Management)? Could you post a screenshot of Disk Management? In case it is not, you will need to allocate that.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

Yes it is my second drive ( I have two other SSD's each with a OS on them)

My OSX drive is currently not in the machine

 

[D_Know_WD]

Do you get some sort of an error message?
So you have checked the drive's health status right? I believe it will not hurt to test it with WD's DLG(short and extended tests) tool as well: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=itj5IR

Fat32 has some limitations. Have you tried to transfer smaller files?(less than 4 GB)

If the drive is in a healthy conditions, then I believe this could be related to the files system. Reformatting to NTFS may be a good idea.

D_Know_WD

 

[Dr_Heath_]

Do you get some sort of an error message?
So you have checked the drive's health status right? I believe it will not hurt to test it with WD's DLG(short and extended tests) tool as well: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=itj5IR

Fat32 has some limitations. Have you tried to transfer smaller files?(less than 4 GB)

If the drive is in a healthy conditions, then I believe this could be related to the files system. Reformatting to NTFS may be a good idea.

D_Know_WD

Yes, I did a sector scan and everything came back up as normal.

I can't seem to transfer files bigger than 200mb

 

[D_Know_WD]

Well, then most probably, this is related to the file format. Just back up the important stuff and reformat it to NTFS.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD