[SOLVED] Bought a 16TB Internal Hard Drive.

[Bat Boy 42]

This isn't my "primary" or the hard drive that I use to boot my PC, I use an SSD for that. It has 1.5TB reserved for whatever it is that it reserves that space, but that's just too much, I want that space. My brother told me it was possible to clear that space so I could access it. Is that true? If so, how do I go about it?

Thanks!

PS: I tried to google it but couldn't find anything aside from the regular "deleting all your files" regular stuff.

 

[USAFRet]

"1.5TB reserved "
What is telling you this?

Is the actual number you're seeing "14.5TB"?
If so, that is NOT missing space, that is absolutely normal and to be expected.

Base 10 vs Base 2.
Human vs Computer.
16TB vs 14.5TB.

Same size, just different units of measurement.

There is no lost space.
There was even a lawsuit on this about a decade ago. Hence, little tiny print of the box the drive came in.

 

[Bat Boy 42]

"1.5TB reserved "
What is telling you this?

Is the actual number you're seeing "14.5TB"?
If so, that is NOT missing space, that is absolutely normal and to be expected.

Base 10 vs Base 2.
Human vs Computer.
16TB vs 14.5TB.

Same size, just different units of measurement.

There is no lost space.
There was even a lawsuit on this about a decade ago. Hence, little tiny print of the box the drive came in.

Yes, it says 14.5TB free of 14.5TB.

So that "1.5TB" is actually not available?

Bummer.

Thanks for the information!

 

[USAFRet]

https://wintelguy.com/gb2gib.html

"Generally, operating systems calculate disk and file sizes using binary numbers, so a new 500 GB drive you've just purchased would be reported by the OS as "465.66 GB" (meaning 465.66 GiB). "

Extrapolate up to "16TB", and you get the "14.5TB" you're seeing.

 

[popatim]

It's not that it is 'not available', its that 14.5GBytes (Windows 1k=1024) is the same as 16Tb (decimal value 1k=1000).

No different then 1 Dollar is the same as 4 Quarters. You're not missing anything.

It's just different counting methods.
Drive manufacturers count 1k as 1000. Windows (and other OS's) count 1k as 1024
Ram still uses OS counting so 8GB ram is really 8388608 Kb, if you've ever wondered where these odd numbers came from.