How do i make the whole 120 GB size seen on 'My Computer' on a Western Digital External.
It only displays 111 GB.
Cheers
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 4 of 4
-
-
120GB is 111 GB computer GB.
HDD makers advertise HDD size as a DECIMAL number (1 GB = 1 000 000 000 Bytes) but the computer report on a binary basis (1GB = 1024*1024*1024 Bytes ).
120 000 000 000 Bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 111 GB -
I converted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS doing it through DOS it came up with a wierd error and it could not continue.
It said the volume is dirty.
Anyway using Powerquest's Partition magic i successfully managed to convert it from FAT32 to NTSC with no hiccups.
What is 'Volume is dirty' What this mean?
Also when defragmenting it after copying 20 GB worth of files to it there were no poor performing files on there but it was all spread out in blue in different sections which is unusual for most of my drives because usually the whole area is blue and you got the unused space which is white, at the end of the blueness. Therefore with this external one its bits of blue with white in between on the graph shown.
Is it becuase it's external?
Thank you.
Similar Threads
-
External HDD Enclosure Question
By Timex in forum ComputerReplies: 4Last Post: 1st Aug 2011, 13:53 -
blu ray hdd- external hdd
By jayjay97 in forum Authoring (Blu-ray)Replies: 2Last Post: 25th Sep 2010, 00:35 -
recover *.mts files from external HDD ..tried restoring hdd software
By ravistudios in forum RestorationReplies: 0Last Post: 18th Mar 2010, 12:24 -
Traveling (US to Australia) with external HDD, power question
By lumis in forum ComputerReplies: 3Last Post: 18th Sep 2007, 16:45 -
Question about external HDD.
By tweedledee in forum ComputerReplies: 4Last Post: 17th Sep 2007, 21:19