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<blockquote data-quote="r_aj" data-source="post: 637655" data-attributes="member: 53718"><p>Hi folks, just trying to get some info on this issue...</p><p></p><p>A bit new to this formatting and partioning thing. I just got a Maxtor 500gb external hard drive, which I formatted and partitioned on a Mac (OSX 10.4.11) It was showing a capacity of 465gb, which seemed fine but when I partitioned it using disk utility, it's capacity is only showing as 257gb! Don't know what I did wrong but I think I may have stuffed up in the partioning process as when I chose the hard drive in disk utility it only showed 257gb figure in the size field and I named it and partioned it (using mac os extended)</p><p></p><p>Any suggestions as to what might be the problem? why is it only showing 257gb? have I lost most of the hard drives capacity?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r_aj, post: 637655, member: 53718"] Hi folks, just trying to get some info on this issue... A bit new to this formatting and partioning thing. I just got a Maxtor 500gb external hard drive, which I formatted and partitioned on a Mac (OSX 10.4.11) It was showing a capacity of 465gb, which seemed fine but when I partitioned it using disk utility, it's capacity is only showing as 257gb! Don't know what I did wrong but I think I may have stuffed up in the partioning process as when I chose the hard drive in disk utility it only showed 257gb figure in the size field and I named it and partioned it (using mac os extended) Any suggestions as to what might be the problem? why is it only showing 257gb? have I lost most of the hard drives capacity? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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