This is an odd one, I've already done some searching and really only come posts from people who don't understand partition size with formatting.
Had a customer bring me in an MSI gaming laptop (can't recall the model now) that he uses to map forestry plots and roads. He had a rather odd setup for storage, laptop had two 500 GB hard drives, OS was 200GBs,one data partition was the remainder of that drive, and the other two partitions divided the other drive. This left him with bits of left over partition that alone weren't large enough to allow him to continue to bring in more mosaics for his plots.
Any way we consolidated all this data onto a TB hard drive, had it hooked up through a USB dock. Checked to make sure that data was there, that it worked and ran (the data is a combination of database files and aerial photos), drive properties showed a full 1TB partition.
Ejected the external, shut his computer down, removed the 500 and installed the TB. When I powered it up the TB showed as being unformatted, ran chkdsk on it, it repaired the partitioning table, he was able to open his map data again. He was happy he could get to work, took it home so he could get back to working on his plots.
Called me later on that afternoon, under This Computer (Windows 10) the drive shows that the partition is only 465GB with 60 GB free. I remoted into his computer and checked under disk management, it shows the drive as being a full TB partition (well the typical 930GBs you'd expect to find). Set him up to run chkdsk /r and told him to restart his computer after it finished. Stopped by my shop this morning on the way to do an appointment, chkdsk had completed without finding any issues.
Just wondering if anyone has had this happen to them before or if I'm having my usual luck of boldly getting an issue that no one has had before.
I realize the best course of action is to wipe that drive and reformat it, like I said before just curious and wondering what everybody else did in this circumstance.
Had a customer bring me in an MSI gaming laptop (can't recall the model now) that he uses to map forestry plots and roads. He had a rather odd setup for storage, laptop had two 500 GB hard drives, OS was 200GBs,one data partition was the remainder of that drive, and the other two partitions divided the other drive. This left him with bits of left over partition that alone weren't large enough to allow him to continue to bring in more mosaics for his plots.
Any way we consolidated all this data onto a TB hard drive, had it hooked up through a USB dock. Checked to make sure that data was there, that it worked and ran (the data is a combination of database files and aerial photos), drive properties showed a full 1TB partition.
Ejected the external, shut his computer down, removed the 500 and installed the TB. When I powered it up the TB showed as being unformatted, ran chkdsk on it, it repaired the partitioning table, he was able to open his map data again. He was happy he could get to work, took it home so he could get back to working on his plots.
Called me later on that afternoon, under This Computer (Windows 10) the drive shows that the partition is only 465GB with 60 GB free. I remoted into his computer and checked under disk management, it shows the drive as being a full TB partition (well the typical 930GBs you'd expect to find). Set him up to run chkdsk /r and told him to restart his computer after it finished. Stopped by my shop this morning on the way to do an appointment, chkdsk had completed without finding any issues.
Just wondering if anyone has had this happen to them before or if I'm having my usual luck of boldly getting an issue that no one has had before.
I realize the best course of action is to wipe that drive and reformat it, like I said before just curious and wondering what everybody else did in this circumstance.
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