The tutor continues talking about the usb hard drive he bought perhaps six years ago.

Back in my Oct 27 post I described a peripheral hard drive bought around 2009, mentioning it was about $50 at the time, and stored about 60Gb.

I said 60Gb because when I plugged it into the Windows 7 computer, it recognized 60Gb in two partitions. However, I recalled the drive’s capacity actually being much larger – 500Gb. I decided I’d just remembered wrong.

Looking around for my drive on the net, though, I often encountered articles about not being able to find usb storage that is plugged in. I came to wonder if, somehow, those articles applied to me. Was the lion’s share of my external drive’s capacity simply not being recognized by Windows?

I clicked one of the articles and learned about a Windows feature called Disk Management, which can be opened from the search box in the Start menu. Doing so, I saw that, indeed, the external drive is 500Gb.

When I first got the drive, I partitioned it using Linux. Perhaps the file formatting I used for some partitions is not recognized by Windows. About 325Gb I suppose I left raw; the Disk Management table shows it as Unallocated.

Here’s the article.

HTH:)

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.