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Why my external hard drive has less space than it should?
I recently bought a 1TB Sandisk external hard drive, but when I checked in Windows file explorer, it shows significantly less available space (only ~500GB). I understand some space is reserved for fo...
It is because the drive has more than one partitions. If other partitions was not formatted or the file system was not recognized, then the actual size of usb is less than what you can see from Windows file explorer.
You can fix this by re-partitioning the drive:
https://www.egardget.com/usb-have-less-space-than-it-says