How it could be possible

[Shubham kumar pandey]

Yesterday,I got my hand on my friend PC(specs: Pentium E6300 ,2 GB RAM,500 GB seagate HDD) to clean format it and boot to windows 7 

when I formatted while booting it shows me 711 GB(after format)  space free space in the hardrive rather than 460 GB(before format) .

I could not figure it out how it was happend .if any know about this should he tells me that is it a good or bad for the pc i later.

[Enderman]

Are you sure it is a 500GB HDD?

[Shubham kumar pandey]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Are you sure it is a 500GB HDD?

yes bro i had checked 4 to 5 times

 

[ATFink]

The only think I can think of that caused it is there may have been excess 750GB HDDs in some OEMs warehouse, so they partitioned it to 500 GB and sold it in a lower tier package that claimed it had a 500 GB HDD inside.

 

I know if storage device >2TB are formatted as MBR the computer will treat it like it's only 2 TB. Format drives larger than 2 TB as GPT for full capacity. Maybe something similar is happening but with an older storage format? Again, no idea, pure speculation.

 

Those are the only logical reasons I can think of if what you say is in fact true. Did you check out what the HDD looked like in Disk Management before formatting? Did it have more than one partition? Was the 460 GB section just a 460 GB partition, or was that the full capacity of the drive?

[corrado33]

Download the trial of this program...

 

https://www.hdtune.com/

 

And run the "error scan"

 

like done in this video.

 

(CAREFUL LOUD MUSIC)

 

If it is a 750 gig hard drive, you'll have sporadic errors like seen in the video title card. If it's a 500 gig that somehow got a 750 gig specification, you'll see a massive block of red either at the top or bottom. 

 

 

 

[corrado33]

Also, be a bro and buy him a freaking upgrade to his CPU.

 

An intel Core 2 Duo E8500 can be easily found on ebay for $5-$7 including shipping. If the board supports Core 2 Quads, buy him a Core 2 Quad Q8400 or Q6600, both which can easily be found for <$10 US on ebay.

[Shubham kumar pandey]

 

6 hours ago, ATFink said:

Did you check out what the HDD looked like in Disk Management before formatting? Did it have more than one partition?

yes and he also have 3 partitions Like 1st one for windows, 2nd one for movies, songs, softwares, games and videos & last one is for his family pictures and videos and 

6 hours ago, ATFink said:

Was the 460 GB section just a 460 GB partition, or was that the full capacity of the drive?

no the drive having a label of 500GB 5400rpm and it shows 460 GB(sum of all three drive space)

 

 

[kingknightrider]

Right click My computer and select manage and then disk management.

Look at the partition layout of the hard drive.