WD Portable 250GB HD


  1. Edward Cullen
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    WD Portable 250GB HD


    hello i have formatted my new Portable HD after 4months but its showing used space 97mb can anyone pls tell me is that normal or is there sum problem ? i mean it should show used space 0 bytes ?
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  3. Roderunner
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    Is the file NTFS or other i.e. FAT32?
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  4. DocBrown
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    Can you give us a screen snip of Disk Management & the properties snip for the HD ?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails WD Portable 250GB HD-disk_mgmt_2-hds_properties.jpg  
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  6. Edward Cullen
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    its NTFS and its empty but its showing used space 97mb... here's the screenshot
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  7. Roderunner
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    Edward Cullen said:
    its NTFS and its empty but its showing used space 97mb... here's the screenshot
    Hi Edward, heres an image of how unused hdd's sizes are allocated.

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  8. DeaconFrost
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    That's perfectly normal. Some of the drive is reserved for system use.
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  10. DocBrown
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    Yep, your screen snip shows just about the right percentage for that HD. Your ok!
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  11. Edward Cullen
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    ok thanks for ur help and to clear my doubts experts
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