Solved Hard drive showing limited capacity

[OverEight]

Hi all, I am trying to do a disk image with Macrium Reflect, I have formatted the drive using NTFS however my drive of 640gb is only showing 750mb in file explorer (Imgur: The magic of the Internet).

Not really sure what's up with this, unless it like a corrupted partion or something. Previously there was a 230gb backup on it, deleted that to make space, formatted it using file explorer, came back, and then tried to do a full backup and know it says this. I think this is a fairly common problem there should be an easy solution, saying I am not the only one who it has happened to.

Any ideas?

 

[Megahertz07]

Please post a whole window of disk manager. Expand the columns so we can read them.

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[OverEight]

here

 

[Megahertz07]

The drive is 931G and has 5 partitions (one is hidden). Don't think you ever had a 640 G E: partition.
It may be an external drive that had the backup.

E: is useless. I would copy any existing files on it and then I would delete the partition and expand the C: partition.

You should never put a partition backup on same disk

 

[OverEight]

"You should never put a partition backup on same disk
"
what do you mean? need clarification

nvm, turns out to it wasn't properly plugged in (the hard drive external) and one part of the allocation of the partion was from C to E and it only allocated less than a gig.
so yeah... backing up windows now on my 580gb sata.

 

[Megahertz07]

"You should never put a partition backup on same disk
"
what do you mean? need clarification

You said that you want to make a C: backup and save it to E: .
C: & E: are on the same drive. If the drive fails, you loose both.

 

[OverEight]

oh rightttttt, thanks i didn't know that.
I changed the drive letter to F and used Macrium to backup, now 24 percent overall completed, beforehand it said there was an i/o error but it's fine now...

so yeah, it's all working now.

 

[Megahertz07]

Glad to hear it's all working now.
Please mark this thread as solved.