“How do I get the full 4000 gb with this hard drive? I hooked this up to my computer formatted it and it only shows 3400 gb of space. I got the drive for just storage, the os is on a different drive.”
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May need more information. What color is the case on your computer?
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You can't get the whole advertized space on this or any physical drive. There is always some space reserved for the drive's internal administrative functions. Someday the marketing departments are going to tell the design and manufacturing departments that this is deceptive advertizing, and maybe they'll listen and start making the drives at 4.2T so that we do get what's advertized.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.no drive, especially hard drives, will give you the full amount of space. Some of the space is alotted to file allocation tables, boot sectors, etc. With hard drives some of the sectors will be bad at the time of manufacturing, and are hidden away from sight as well. It's all hard drives, so no worries about faults.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Unfortunately, I've never bought a HDD that has the full capacity that's listed, and I have t found a way to increase capacity of a hard disk drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This hard drive does have 4,000Gigabytes of storage, and windows is taking full advantage of it. However, the operating system doesn't show "Gigabytes" in its UI, instead it shows "Gibibytes." meaning that you're seeing 3400Gibibytes of storage, which is the equivalent of 4000Gigabytes. But then windows still uses the "GB" abbreviation instead of "GiB" Idk why windows does this but it's just the way it is i guess. hopefully this sort of answers your question
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