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Formatted a brand new 2Terabyte hard drive. It shows up in my computer as having 122MB occupied on the drive ?

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Any one know why ? I can't give much information or screen shots cause I'm using software to analyze the disk. Could take upto 16-24hours.

Disk is in NTFS Logical.

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chkdsk has finished. No errors or bad sectors are on the disk. C'mon people what am I paying you for.. Check image below for further information.

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Swift Kidd:

When you format a disk some space is required for the Master File Table. Additionally, Windows reserves some space in the System Volume Information folder (it's a hidden, protected, system folder) for shadow storage and it also reserves some space for the Recycle Bin. 122.7 MB out of 2 TB doesn't sound out of line; that's only 0.007% of the space on the partition.

As a test, I created a 500 MB partition and Windows used 5 MB for its files, or 1% of the space on the partition. So you got off easy....

Ok, But this doesn't occur on my other internal (1 terabye hard drive).

When I open the hard drive press ctrl + A right click to pull up properties, every byte is accounted for in used data ?

That's interesting. Did you format both hard drives the same way? With Disk Director or did you let Windows format them?

As an aside, why make the partition on the 2 TB disk a logical partition? You can have up to four primary partitions on an MBR disk, or three primaries and any number of logicals. Since you only have one partition on the disk, why not make it a primary?

HDD producer use 1 GB = 1000 MB
Windows use 1 GB = 1024 MB
If you divide 2000000000000 by 1.07 you see the available space for OSes