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I am very anal why is my two 4 TB drives not the same size ?
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bad sectors being sectioned off?
How would I know this ?
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chkdsk?
Thanks trying now!
No one is a internal WD Black 4 TB Drive the other is a WD My Book external drive.
There is your answers. they are not buildt identically. diffrent sector layout
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he said they were the same before an RMA.
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On older drives, you could reduce the reported size of the disk using some manufacturer's tool. I don't know if you still can on today's drive. Other than that, right click the volume and shrink it by 20-21MB.
Irrelevant.
Diffrent driver = diffrent sector structuer
The new drive is not the the same as the old one.
I will guestimte it was the external that could change end the actual hd in it is a different sub model
Its not uncoming that size are not the exact same when the model of the drive is not the same.
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I have a Pair of 4TB Blacks and they are smaller than yours. I feel ripped off.
And what is up with that EFI partition on one of them?
And what is up with that EFI partition on one of them?
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not worth the effort. My advice, pretend that you didn't notice the sizes were slightly difference and just carry on.
Whoever Installed windows didn't know how to do it properly
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition
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what is odd is that drive wasn't in the computer when windows was installed back in 2009. It was added in 2015.
of so thats weird
Dont know how that could happen.
But its always created during windows install on all computers I've installed windows on.
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My MB is old enough to not be EFI and I have a 100MB NTFS partition for basically the same reason. Sometime if you have multiple physical drives during install, the installer will put the 100M on one and the primary Windows partition on another. Had one recently where it put the 100M partition on a drive I didn't plan on leaving in that computer. Had to reinstall after pulling the 2nd drive as windows wouldn't boot with the 100M partition missing.
As for the OP, I wouldn't worry about it unless you have some kind of image backup setup that requires perfectly matching drive sizes.
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Is why I only install windows with the 1 hard drive in the system so there wont be any surprises.
and this is the examples of of installing windows incorrectly
Sometime if you have multiple physical drives during install,
No. just no. You should never have that.