Back in my Oct 27 post<\/a> I described a peripheral hard drive bought around 2009, mentioning it was about $50 at the time, and stored about 60Gb.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Here’s the article.<\/a><\/p>\n HTH:)<\/p>\n