Worzel - 13 hour(s) ago
@Cartref Did not need to do anything, pretty p*ssed it took half a TB off me though. ;-)
Hard drives are sold with the capacity stated as defined by the Metric System.
For DOS / Windows, Formatted Capacity is defined by the Binary Byte Size.
FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, GPT are all in Binary Bytes
( you must format as GPT for HD larger than 2TB )
Metric 1 K = 1000
Binary 1 K = 1024
Metric 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000
Binary 1TB = 1,099,511,627,776
to convert metric TB to binary TB we need the Conversion Factor
1,000,000,000,000 / 1,099,511,627,776 =
0.909494...0.909494... X 4,000,000,000,000 =
3,637,978,807,091so a 4TB HD actually formats to about
3.6TB in Binary Bytes.
4,000,000,000,000 Metric Bytes is
3,637,978,807,091 Binary Bytes