So today I installed a new 2TB WD green drive into my computer, plugged it in and went into Disk Management and I had to initialize it first. Okay then I went to create a new volume, left everything at the default and the partition size as the full size of the drive. I didn't tick the quick format and thought I'll do a full format.
So after the formatting completed, in the Disk Management, the new 2TB drive was healthy but when I went to My Computer and clicked on the drive, it only had 0.99TB of 1.81TB free space. There was nothing else inside the drive except a folder called System Volume Information, which I couldn't access and it appeared empty.
So I went back to Disk Management and I can see it recognises the full 1.81 TB and that about 50% of it's capacity was filled. I then went and did a quick format of the drive, and it now has the full 1.81TB as free space.
The question is, have I done something bad to the drive and is there a problem with it? How do I know it's working properly?
Hope someone can help thanks.
So after the formatting completed, in the Disk Management, the new 2TB drive was healthy but when I went to My Computer and clicked on the drive, it only had 0.99TB of 1.81TB free space. There was nothing else inside the drive except a folder called System Volume Information, which I couldn't access and it appeared empty.
So I went back to Disk Management and I can see it recognises the full 1.81 TB and that about 50% of it's capacity was filled. I then went and did a quick format of the drive, and it now has the full 1.81TB as free space.
The question is, have I done something bad to the drive and is there a problem with it? How do I know it's working properly?
Hope someone can help thanks.
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