HDD - Capacity Disappeared (Urgent) ??

[craige4u]

I just bought a new 2TB HD and I already had/Using an 2TB HDD.

Now, in my old Hard drive I had two partitions:
i] 50GB & ii] 1.76TB

Now, in my new Hard drive I have also created two partitions:
I] 45Gb & ii] I am getting only 1.77TB ? -- I have created 5gb less partition size than the old HD so should I be getting this partition as 1.81TB ??

Heres the screenshot displaying the difference:

1] - OLD HD

2] - NEW HD


The partition is created via windows 7 disk and the screenshot is below:

 

[KingFatty]

Hmm how did you create the partitions on the new drive?

Also, what does drive manager say your partitions look like? Maybe the way you partitioned the 2nd drive created another hidden partition somehow?

 

[craige4u]

Hmm how did you create the partitions on the new drive?

Also, what does drive manager say your partitions look like? Maybe the way you partitioned the 2nd drive created another hidden partition somehow?

Required info. added

 

[kevinsbane]

I just bought a new 2TB HD and I already had/Using an 2TB HDD.

Now, in my old Hard drive I had two partitions:
i] 50GB & ii] 1.76TB

Now, in my new Hard drive I have also created two partitions:
I] 45Gb & ii] I am getting only 1.77TB ? -- I have created 5gb less partition size than the old HD so should I be getting this partition as 1.81TB ??

Heres the screenshot displaying the difference:

1] - OLD HD

2] - NEW HD


The partition is created via windows 7 disk and the screenshot is below:

0.01TiB = 10 GiB. 5 GiB difference will result in a ~0.01TiB difference.
Maths:
2 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1862 GiB
1862 - 45 = 1817 GiB = 1.770 TiB
1862 - 50 = 1812 GiB = 1.775 TiB

0.04 TiB is closer to 50 GiB of data.

 

[KingFatty]

Can you view the partition information using Windows 7 disk manager? To get there, you would bring up the "My Computer" icon using windows explorer or whatever. Then, right-click on My Computer and select Manage from the menu. Then, in the Computer Management, click on Disk Management under Storage.

 

[craige4u]

0.01TiB = 10 GiB. 5 GiB difference will result in a ~0.01TiB difference.
Maths:
2 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1862 GiB
1862 - 45 = 1817 GiB = 1.770 TiB
1862 - 50 = 1812 GiB = 1.775 TiB

0.04 TiB is closer to 50 GiB of data.

Hmmmm...... i do understood you but i am not sure exactly, So is it all good & normal as to what capacities i am getting on the drives ?

 

[Brunnis]

Yes, all is well. To put it simply, you thought that 5GB was equal to 0.05TB, when it's in fact just 0.005. A simple calculation error on your part.

 

[craige4u]

Yes, all is well. To put it simply, you thought that 5GB was equal to 0.05TB, when it's in fact just 0.005. A simple calculation error on your part.

Yes you got exactly where I miscalculated, THX