Hard drive usable space

how much freespace should be usable on a 2tb hard drive without partitioning ?. should there be hundreds of gigabytes space already used ? all the above assumes a brand new drive without any bad sectors or errors and has been freshly formatted ready for use and NO partitions or other programs or data on

 

garry35,

Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management?

 

Hard drive manufacturers often report size using 1000-based units, but most (all?) OS use 1024-based units. So, on a 2 TB drive, you might be 100 GB short (1024^4 vs 1000^4). But more than that seems odd.

 

sorry i cant post a disk management shot, it just seems that all the 2tb drives i have used seem to show about 1.7tb available regardless of whether their internal or external drives so now i decided on a single 2tb internal and partitioned approx 100gb for windows and the rest for data..........................

 

garry35,

In Disk Management, in the square to the left of the drive rectangles you will see a Disk number. What is the GB number under the word Basic.

 

Hello Garry, a hard drive marketed as 2 TB is about 1862 GB or 1.8 TB in binary based system. So when you plug this drive into windows, it will show up as a 1862 GB drive.

 

2*0.93 = 1.86. Effective capacity = 0.93*nominal capacity.

 

Garry,

No feedback?

 

thanks for all the replies. the question has now been answered, but i am unable to post screenshots or reports because the drive is no longer installed or in use, sorry for any misunderstanding caused and lack of feedback

 

Gazzer, thanks for responding.

Just a bit of help with...

This is an impossible scenario. You can't have a formatted drive ready for use with NO partitions. You have to create a partition before you can format the partition. Partitions can be non-formatted or formatted. Unallocated free space can't be formatted. Only partitions can be formatted.

 

my bad i meant to say no partitions as well as the partition needed, ie. no extra partitions