Bought 2TB - Need Help with Space Calculation

[craige4u]

Hello,

I just got 2TB HDD and a few confusion:

1] In order to get one partition of 50GB I allocated 51200MB… but after format it turned out to be 49.9GB only. The calculation above is correct as I used this before and I never got it wrong. (NOTE: 100MB windows partition is already created separately.)

In order to solve this I havd tried 51250MB, then it shows full 50GB.. Whts wrong here? is it related to sum new 4K sector as mentioned in the link below?

2] Another partition I created of 1.77TB and it shows 1.76TB free, whole 1GB less ?

3] Can u pls calculate and tellme tht If u combine both partitions, am I getting full capacity of a 2TB HDD after format? I am not able to add properly, I guess poor maths !

Link to my HD: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-au/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/

Thx

 

[drescherjm]

Whts wrong here? is it related to sum new 4K sector as mentioned in the link below?

You are getting around the correct size of 1.86 TiB. What is lost is that windows uses TiB but calls it TB.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1347640

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hitachi-7k1000-terabyte-hard-drive,1584-2.html

1] In order to get one partition of 50GB I allocated 51200MB… but after format it turned out to be 49.9GB only. The calculation above is correct as I used this before and I never got it wrong. (NOTE: 100MB windows partition is already created separately.)

In order to solve this I havd tried 51250MB, then it shows full 50GB.. Whts wrong here? is it related to sum new 4K sector as mentioned in the link below?

2] Another partition I created of 1.77TB and it shows 1.76TB free, whole 1GB less ?

Partitioning is I believe is on 2048 sector boundaries. I believe you are seeing that combined with round off.