Resolved External HD not display free space.

My external 3TB HD at present showing Free space as 2.72TB and capacity 2.72TB. Drive has installed at least 10GB of files and folders. The blue indicator is no longer shown as in other HD installed at present in computer. I have formatted and reinstalled files to this HD twice in an effort to clear error.

 

Hi Bobby, I think that is normal for drive capacities to be shown in Disc Management at less than total claimed.
My 240GB SSD is shown 222.7GB's available space. There is a total of 1300MB's shown as Recovery and Healthy.
There is a reason for the display figures quoted and someone more Technically knowledgeable will be able to explain the reason. Neil.

 

Bobby I don't know if this will help but you could try try reading this explanation: Why Does My HDD Report Less Capacity Than Indicated On The Drives Label?

 

Good Link from Seagate LJ. I have read the info before and just accepted the figures shown in Disc Management as correct/normal. Neil.

 

The HD icon is shown under "Computers ". My other external HDs under "Computers" all show the correct capacity and free space available. I must agree this does not affect the working of this HD, but more annoying to see that the indicator fails to show remaining space available. This fault has surfaced before, but I just can not remember procedure that was undertaken to solve this issue.

 

First go to Start\in the search box type in cmd.exe right click on the entry and choose run as administrator enter this command sfc /scannow then press enter. Did you post that problem before on windowsbbs.com, if so click on your membership user name just above the website's menu bar it shows Welcome, BobbyScot then click on Show All Statistics\Find all threads started by BobbyScot or if can remember the thread title search the website or the(eg. Windows 7 etc.)forum where you started that particular thread.

 

Thanks for your response. I will certainly try out your suggestion. Yes, I requested this help factor on Windows BBS a few years back, and searched before this current request for help.

 

As suggested, ran a sfc /scannow, result showed that no error was found.
Unable to locate a past posting by me, of External HD not show free space.

 

No apparent solution for the present.

 

Hi Bobby, This may or may not be of any help, but users were having trouble with 3TB drives only showing 2TB's.
Thanks to 'thepeglegpete' in Tom's Hardware site:

It might be worth investigating GPARTED and see if that will help you. Neil.

 

Hi retiredlearner, checked Device Manager and found HD is WD manufactured. Capacity : 2861556MB. Unallocated : 2MB. Information seems to be inaccurate as desktop states as 2.72TB free space, when at least 10GB of files are installed on the said HD.

 

Was this the thread you were referring to: External Hard Drive Issue

 

Yes it appears to be the same 3TB HD. Error must have been sorted, as the HD worked satisfactory for many months, until error repeated again recently.

 

Glad it's fixed and thanks for the update.

 

Sorry in misleading, the HD in question still has the error. What was misleading is, error was rectified a few months back, but same error is again prominent and sorry to say that I have no clue how to solve it.

 

Didn't mean to jump the gun. Sorry about that.

 

I must thank you all for time taken to solve this error. HD works satisfactory except for not showing free space available and this could be said error being merely cosmetic and best ignored. What is baffling me is, why HD behaving like this over night, as far as I can remember, no action was done except to shutdown computer.

 

I made a further check External HD in Disk Management and notice that the other Ext HDs show "Active ". HD in question shows [2794.36GB NTFS. Healthy Primary Partition but no Action]. Is failure of "Action ", reason for this error?