[SOLVED] Hard drive will not show all folders- Show size smaller

[agate2]

Hard drive will not show all folders- Show size smaller
I have Segate 500 GB drive it only show 465 GB

This is used hardrive, which I have formatted in windows 10
Also used EraseUS to delete partitions, but after that it still shows 465 GB
How can I find the remaining 35 GB on the drive.
I like to find that then do a format. Hoping that will bring to 500 GB

 

[USAFRet]

There is no missing 35GB.
A drive advertised at 500GB will read as 465GB in Windows.
This is absolutely normal and to be expected.

Simply different reporting units.
Base 10 vs Base 2
Human vs Computer.

You have not lost any space.

1TB on the box reads as 931GB
2TB reads as 1.81TB
500GB reads as 465GB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

 

[kerberos_20]

from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
The total capacity of HDDs is given by manufacturers using SI decimal prefixes such as gigabytes (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) and terabytes (1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes). This practice dates back to the early days of computing; by the 1970s, "million", "mega" and "M" were consistently used in the decimal sense for drive capacity. However, capacities of memory are quoted using a binary interpretation of the prefixes, i.e. using powers of 1024 instead of 1000.

Software reports hard disk drive or memory capacity in different forms using either decimal or binary prefixes. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems uses the binary convention when reporting storage capacity, so an HDD offered by its manufacturer as a 1 TB drive is reported by these operating systems as a 931 GB HDD. Mac OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") uses decimal convention when reporting HDD capacity. The default behavior of the df command-line utility on Linux is to report the HDD capacity as a number of 1024-byte units.

The difference between the decimal and binary prefix interpretation caused some consumer confusion and led to class action suits against HDD manufacturers. The plaintiffs argued that the use of decimal prefixes effectively misled consumers while the defendants denied any wrongdoing or liability, asserting that their marketing and advertising complied in all respects with the law and that no class member sustained any damages or injuries.

 

[agate2]

USAFRet and
kerberos_20


Thank you very much.

 

[hang-the-9]

40 year old (maybe older) computer question strikes again LOL The drive vendors really should list size as not just their gb size but also in expected size that the computer will report as available.