Incorrect "space used"?

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I’ve just received and formatted my new WD Elements 2TB drive. Strangely, when I open the properties of the drive (with the pie chart) and look at the “space used” it reads “239 MB”. This number is always the same, after I format and even when I remove and add the partition.

On the other hand, when I go to disk management and look at the columns for the particular columns I see:

Capacity:      1863,01 MB

Free space: 1862,78 MB

% Free:         100%

Then, when right click on the drive in disk management and go to properties, I see the “239 MB”  number again.

So who is right?

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Hi, you can try to write zeros to make sure that you deleted everything. Check the link below.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1211/session/L3RpbWUvMTM1NDIyNDUzNC9zaWQvQjlFQ2t3Y2w%3D

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Thanks for your suggestion! It’s now in the process of formatting. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

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OK, ‘zero erase’ is done and just formatted the drive to NTFS.

Turns out that the 239 MB is, as I suspected, from the MFT.  But being assured is worth something too. :slight_smile: