I bought a "My Passport Essential" hard drive disk from WD the other day. I reformatted the drive to NFTS which deleted all the crap that come on it. I bought it back up my music and video files so I didn't need the software and all the junk that came with it. Before and after reformatting I noticed that the drive only has 299 GB of free space on it. The drive is advertised as having 230 GB of space.
I know that this happens with hard drives. I know that we never actually get the full capacity that drives are advertised at; however, losing 21 GB on a drive is crazy to me. Not to mention there is not a single thing on this drive. Literally, I open up this drive from My Computer and there is not one file on it yet. So where does the 21 GB of space go? Can I get it back? Is there any formatting that can be done? Is WD lying?
The drive works fine but this problem has always kind of baffled me. Any information would be much apprectiated. Thanks.
I know that this happens with hard drives. I know that we never actually get the full capacity that drives are advertised at; however, losing 21 GB on a drive is crazy to me. Not to mention there is not a single thing on this drive. Literally, I open up this drive from My Computer and there is not one file on it yet. So where does the 21 GB of space go? Can I get it back? Is there any formatting that can be done? Is WD lying?
The drive works fine but this problem has always kind of baffled me. Any information would be much apprectiated. Thanks.