I am going to be adding a couple of additional HDDs to a Win 7 64 bit system, this is a useful primer
Win 7
Q/
When installing a 2TB drive for music only, should I install as one 2TB area or several smaller ones?
Simon
Happy New Year Simon!
Mine just started thanks to you.
I started my question about this subject, then answered the door and chatted to a mate who popped around, and when i finished it, i saw your post.
Followed your instructions and now i am the proud owner of two 500gb partitions.
Or rather, i ended up with a 488GB and a 433GB? I seem to be missing nearly 80GBs…
Yes Happy new year 
Adding a filesystem to a drive such as NTFS actually takes up quite a lot of space? File Alocation Tables, MFT reservations, etc…
1TB = 1000 GB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000KB (this is for HDD manufacturers)
But for the OS:
1,000,000,000KB = 976562.5MB = 953GB approx!
Cut out some part for file allocation etc. I don’t think they are added into the OS detection. You get what you have now.
Hope this helps.
Simon
Not really, i still end up feeling wretchedly robbed.
But thank you for explaining.
I think i’ll remove the partition and hopefully only feel mildly mugged:)
