Do I need special software?

effpeetee · 01-31-2013, 12:07 PM

I have acquired 1 TB USB hard drive. I cannot get the full 1 tb ofcapacity using the usual Windows format. Do I need special software to use the full capacity?

Frustrated Frank

WolfShade · 01-31-2013, 01:41 PM

You won't get 100% out of any drive, as part of the drive is reserved for the file system. Each system has a certain amount of space for the OS to use for locating files, etc.

oracleguy · 01-31-2013, 05:25 PM

How much space are you seeing? With a 1TB drive you should see about 932GB of actual space since HD manufacturers consider 1 KB to be a 1000 bytes whereas computer use 1KB = 1024 bytes.

effpeetee · 02-03-2013, 10:13 AM

It shows 931 Gig, perhaps I am being too greedy.

Frank

elitis · 02-03-2013, 06:47 PM

If you're using Windows 8 Pro (going by your sig), then that's about the correct amount. Win 8 Pro uses about 43Gb (going by MS Surface Pro; 128Gb - 63 and 64 - 23) Then there's all the other pre-installed software. The best you could do is delete the preinstalled bloatware (most likely antivirus; not recommended though)