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Okay this has been bothering me fore a while, my computers says i have 1.9 TB of storage? i went to the administrator tools and went to computer management and to Disk Management and it 746.52GB Unallocated? Please help.

 

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4 minutes ago, garren078 said:

Okay this has been bothering me fore a while, my computers says i have 1.9 TB of storage? i went to the administrator tools and went to computer management and to Disk Management and it 746.52GB Unallocated? Please help.

 

Thank you.

Well, it looks like you have a 3TB disk and something like 800GB of it isn't allocated.

 

What do you want help with?

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1 minute ago, JefferyD90 said:

Well, it looks like you have a 3TB disk and something like 800GB of it isn't allocated.

 

What do you want help with?

its actually 2tb and i want to get that 700gb back.

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

its actually 2tb and i want to get that 700gb back.

If you have a 2TB disk and a 1.9TB drive then you actually have more storage than you should.  A 2TB disk translates into around 1.7TB of drive space.

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Can you post a screenshot of the device management window so we can see what exactly is going on?

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Thats really weird? why dont they call it a 1.9 TB instead of 2TB?

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The reason they seem different is drive makers will sell a drive with 1000^4 bytes and call it 1 TB, when for something to be 1 TB in Windows, it must be 1024^4 bytes.

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2 minutes ago, garren078 said:

Thats really weird? why dont they call it a 1.9 TB instead of 2TB?

Because it does have 2tb but it has to reserve some of it to operate and do stuff

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

Thats really weird? why dont they call it a 1.9 TB instead of 2TB?

Its because that is how Windows manages disk space.

 

1 byte = 8bits

1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

1 megabyte = 1024 kilobytes

1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes

1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes.

 

That is how it works in the real world and inside of Windows.

 

But the disk manufacture rates it like this:

 

1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes.

 

This equates that every 1TB you'll see a difference in about 75GB.

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2 minutes ago, thatguyyouknow75 said:

Because it does have 2tb but it has to reserve some of it to operate and do stuff

No that is not correct, see my next next post.

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3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

The reason they seem different is drive makers will sell a drive with 1000^4 bytes and call it 1 TB, when for something to be 1 TB in Windows, it must be 1024^4 bytes.

This is 100% correct.

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14 minutes ago, garren078 said:

Okay this has been bothering me fore a while, my computers says i have 1.9 TB of storage? i went to the administrator tools and went to computer management and to Disk Management and it 746.52GB Unallocated? Please help.

 

Thank you.

But you say you have nearly 750GB unallocated.  Why do you have unallocated disk space for?

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1 minute ago, JefferyD90 said:

But you say you have nearly 750GB unallocated.  Why do you have unallocated disk space for?

Thats my question. I dont no if I should delete it, and I dont no how to delete it

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

Thats my question. I dont no if I should delete it, and I dont no how to delete it

 

9 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Can you post a screenshot of the device management window so we can see what exactly is going on?

 

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

Thats my question. I dont no if I should delete it, and I dont no how to delete it

You still haven't posted a screen shot.  I'm not so sure that you're explaining what you're seeing very well.

 

Because the way I see it you have a 3TB hard drive and you don't know it.

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OP, if you want to have more information on the subject, you should look up tebibytes vs. terabytes. (or gibibytes vs. gigabytes, mebibytes vs. megabytes etc.)

 

1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes

1 Gibibyte = 1024 Mebibytes.

 

I think your OS uses mebibytes and your HDD manufucturer lists megabytes, because that just results in them being able to list it as more. (could be the other way around though)

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2 minutes ago, Minibois said:

OP, if you want to have more information on the subject, you should look up tebibytes vs. terabytes. (or gibibytes vs. gigabytes, mebibytes vs. megabytes etc.)

 

1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes

1 Gibibyte = 1024 Mebibytes.

 

I think your OS uses mebibytes and your HDD manufucturer lists megabytes, because that just results in them being able to list it as more. (could be the other way around though)

Unfortunately looking into that will probably cause more confusion than clarity, since Windows actually uses the "Gibibyte" (which should be written as GiB) but uses the abbreviations of Gigabyte (GB).

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5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Unfortunately looking into that will probably cause more confusion than clarity, since Windows actually uses the "Gibibyte" (which should be written as GiB) but uses the abbreviations of Gigabyte (GB).

true, but you will understand at least a bit what is happening.

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

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half of the window is missing due to your low resolution but I believe @JefferyD90 was correct - you have a 3 TB drive, and windows has only created a 2 TB (roughly) partition.  My guess is this could be related to the issue that existed a number of years ago with support for drives larger than 2 TB being limited and finicky.  Though  I can't fathom why you'd be having that issue with a modern OS and hardware...

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2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

half of the window is missing due to your low resolution but I believe @JefferyD90 was correct - you have a 3 TB drive, and windows has only created a 2 TB (roughly) partition.  My guess is this could be related to the issue that existed a number of years ago with support for drives larger than 2 TB being limited and finicky.  Though  I can't fathom why you'd be having that issue with a modern OS and hardware...

Is there anyway I could fix this problem

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

Is there anyway I could fix this problem

Can you right-click on the partition and select "Expand volume"?

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Yes but not the one that says unallocated

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1 minute ago, garren078 said:

but my primary partition i can

good, that's the one I mean.  Can you get it to expand to fill the remaining volume?

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