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drive usage does not make sense

seagate 30000gb hard drive shows up as used 2.25 mb, and free 746 gb in properties. Where is the rest of the drive. Am i reading this right? Drive came out of a Lacie external drive brand new.

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Sean

Go into disk management and see if there is additional space that is not allocated to the volume. Otherwise it could be a defective drive and needs to be sent back. You may also want to just format the drive and see if that helps.

Georgeidp

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I deleted the partition and created a new one. formatted the drive and still shows the same size. Tried this on a mac and a pc running windows 10 pro.

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Georgeidp

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thats what i thought. I will call them.

george

ste5an

What drive is it exactly? Use SeaTools to examine it.

David Johnson, CD

I know this question is closed but if the drive is initialized as MBR or the USB caddy doesn't support >2TB drives what the user is seeing is what is to be expected. from diskpart clean the disk, then initialize it as GPT then you should see the entire drive.

Member_2_231077

David is right, there's nothing wrong with the drive, MBR does not support disks above 2TiB / 2.2TB,

Sean

I stand corrected. Digging deeper this is common. My apologies. Here is a link with more information on this.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/3tb-drive-shows-746gb.html

Georgeidp

ASKER

I want to thank all for the help and will let you know the results when it is done.

Thanks

George