ron-e-g Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 After reformatting my Seagate Replica 2 TB external hard drive, I loaded some files back on to it. It now still shows 1.81 TB of 1.81 TB free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 1, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 1, 2020 Possibly because drives are specified in terabytes (1k = 1,000 bytes) and Explorer uses tebibytes where 1k = 1024 bytes. So your 2tb disk says 2 terabytes on the label and 1.8 tebibytes when examined by Explorer. It's actually 10 to the power of 12. You will have some relatively small system files on there after formatting, but who knows what your 'some files' means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron-e-g Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 Let me explain better. In "this PC' view the drive is listed as 1.81 TB free of 1.81 TB. When I open the drive I can view the 6.6 GB of files on it. So how can it be 1.81 TB free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 2, 2020 Moderators Share Posted January 2, 2020 Well I don't know everything. Consider that 6.6 gb is only 0.0066 of a terabyte, so it could just be rounding (e.g 1.814 less 0.006 = 1.808 rounded to 1.81). Using properties on the drive will give a more accurate figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron-e-g Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 OK thanks. guess it is just too small an amount to show other than through "properties" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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