You are wrong and need to refresh your math calculation.
The WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool seems to have misled you with wrong info and conceptual formula.> The Windows command prompt is reporting 459 GB free space, not 493 GB.
There is no difference whether you check it from command line, computer management or Windows explorer.> The command line never recognizes 493 GB.
The command line reports 493,439,340,544 bytes free (which is 459 GB)> 493,439,340,544 bytes is 459 GB, not 493 GB> 493,439,340,544 bytes free = 493,439,340,544 / (1024*1024*1024) GB free = 459.55 GB> * * *
wd123 wrote:
Command line CLEARY RECOGNIZES that there are 493 GB of FREE SPACE !!!
Does that mean if i copy files using command prompt, i can use up the full capacity?
Here’s the different capacity report
- Local Disk Properties
Capacity: 500.11 GB Free Space: 493.45 GB
But it is “rounded up” to
Capacity: 465 GB Free Space: 459 GB
- Computer Management
Capacity 465.76 GB Free Space: 459.55 GB
- Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic
Capacity: 500.11 GB Free Space: 493.45 GB
- Bios info
Capacity: 500 GB
- Command Prompt
Capacity: 500 GB Free Space: 493 GB
Clearly Windows XP is able to see the correct capacity under command prompt.
But for some reason, it reports the wrong capacity under windows explorer.
Isn’t this strange?
