Hard Disk Problems

[grand_witch]

I have a 500gb Seagate external Hardrive but in Vista it only displays as 400gb, any ideas its driving me mad.

[TheReaFireblade]

You'll obviously be aware that you lose a good portion of the stated drive capacity after formatting it, but you shouldn't lose 100GB from a 500GB drive
Check it in Disk Management > Storage, to see if there are any hidden partitions?

There shouldn't be of course, if it's a brand new drive, but it's worth checking anyway?
If it is a brand new drive, and you do find a hidden partition... get straight onto whoever you bought it from!

[wesleylin]

maybe u should format it properly b4 u use it...

[TheReaFireblade]

maybe u should format it properly b4 u use it...

Very helpful... NOT! Was it really worth signing up just to say that

[FifthFreedom]

Yeah, that happened to me.

I ordered a 1000gig drive and it showed as 800gig.

Turned out I had 200Gig in unpartitioned space.

Google "Paragon Partition manager" or something similar.

It can expand partitions without reformatting I believe.

[Ommid]

Yeah, that happened to me.

I ordered a 1000gig drive and it showed as 800gig.

Turned out I had 200Gig in unpartitioned space.

Google "Paragon Partition manager" or something similar.

It can expand partitions without reformatting I believe.

Vista can too, Disk Management in Admin Tools in Control Panel, if it works is another story lol, Just check it out, post a screenshot of disk management and we can see too and let ya know.