Got a TB drive today and set it up with a 500GB, 300GB and 100GB partition and a bit left over for the future.
Through the windows reformat tool, I set the 500GB partition to 512000MB, 500(GB) * 1024.
In disc management, the partition shows as exactly 500GB.
In the right click -> properties window though, the drive has 536,870,907,904 bytes, or 499.9999962GB total capacity.
Furthermore, the same window says the drive has 105MB used space already. I haven't touched it, and with hidden files and system files showing the most that's on the drive is a few KB from Diskeeper. This pattern is the same (though the used space varies) on the other two partitions.
I've disabled the recycle bin on these partitions as well as the page file. What else could be using this space, and more importantly, what accounts for the few KB outside of disk management?
Through the windows reformat tool, I set the 500GB partition to 512000MB, 500(GB) * 1024.
In disc management, the partition shows as exactly 500GB.
In the right click -> properties window though, the drive has 536,870,907,904 bytes, or 499.9999962GB total capacity.
Furthermore, the same window says the drive has 105MB used space already. I haven't touched it, and with hidden files and system files showing the most that's on the drive is a few KB from Diskeeper. This pattern is the same (though the used space varies) on the other two partitions.
I've disabled the recycle bin on these partitions as well as the page file. What else could be using this space, and more importantly, what accounts for the few KB outside of disk management?