Formatting a new 4 TB HD

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I just installed a new Seagate ST4000VN000 4TB 64MB SATA 6GB/S NAS Hard Drive as my second STORAGE ONLY drive. I formatted it as one partition, NTFS, allocation size 4096 under Win 7 64 bit.

The HD shows up with 206 MB used, 3.63 TB free. I know windows sets aside some room for the recyle bin and other stuff, but is 206 MB normal? That is 1% I have never used a drive this large bfore.
 
It's set aside for feature like Bitlocker. It's not needed for a lot of people, but at the same time it hardly matters.
 
OK, now I am really confused about what is going on. Let me post some images.

Here is the drive's properties

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Here is where I got the 1% full from, it is a directory utility (I did not do the math, you are correct 1% is 40 GB) I have it set to show hidden files, yet it claims 1 item is hidden

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Where did you get TiB from?
 
You aren't showing protected/system files.

The space is being used by the System Volume Information folder.
 
Snowknight26 said:
You aren't showing protected/system files.

The space is being used by the System Volume Information folder.
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Yeah that is it, I had it set to show hidden files but I forgot to turn on system files. I now see it as the $RECYCLE.BIN But why is the drive showing 1% full? Is Win 7 is measuring in TiB and not TB?
 
Is Win 7 is measuring in TiB and not TB?
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Windows measures in TiB but uses the TB unit. This is why it does not say your drive is a 4TB drive which it clearly is by having a little more than 4 trillion bytes.
 
drescherjm said:
Windows measures in TiB but uses the TB unit. This is why it does not say your drive is a 4TB drive which it clearly is by having a little more than 4 trillion bytes.
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Well that is confusing since I can CLEARLY see TB not TiB on the chart. That is why I was wondering what was going on.
 
Looks like it's rounding up to 1% when it's really closer to 0.005%.

And yep Windows reports in TiB while using the TB label. This is always cause for lots of confusion.

4 terabytes is 4 trillion bytes at least according to NIST.
 
I was under the impression that it is a bad idea to use A and B as drive letters because Windows still treats those in a special way, because they used to be assigned to floppy disks.
Microsoft says
if your computer does not have floppy disk drives, you can assign A and B to volumes
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(here) so I suppose it doesn't matter anymore.
 
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