Recover external Disk capacity


  1. JohnM40
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.
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    Recover external Disk capacity


    Running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 byte. Have a 1 tb external Seagate drive connected with USB 2. Disk capacity is showing 925GB. Have lost 75 GB. Is there a way to recover the the lost 75 GB?
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  3. Britton30
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    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    Welcome to Seven Forums.
    You have not lost any capacity, the difference is the way drive makers and Windows measure it. Windows uses binary system and makers use decimal.
    Example:
    Binary, 1MB=1048576 bytes
    Decimal 1MB=1000000 bytes
    Windows would show a decimal MB as 976.5KB
    The drive may have some native files that came with it too, like encryption and software.
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