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Formatted or non formatted, the capacity of the disk remains 500.000.000.000 bytes.
The fact that after formatting you can't see or use it all,
or that parts of it are occupied, does not change the physical properties of the drive.
The difference in size mentioned by manufacturers, and how it shows in windows has nothing,
I repeat nothing to do with formatting, nor filesystem, nor bios nor anything else.
Note that I am NOT talking about free space. I'm talking about capacity.
The first post of this thread shows you that the difference between advertised and reported by windows,
is because the whole industry (miss) uses 1024 for a kilobyte, and disk makers use 1000.
The calculation is watertight.