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Old January 23rd, 2009, 04:11 PM
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1TB External Hard-drive becomes 16gb...
Hey!

I just bought a brand new Maxtor Basics External Desktop HArd Drive 1TB.

Through personal experience, I figured that its best to format the drive before using it, as generally its in fat32 format. This time round, it was already NTFS, but I formated it anyways. The process took a huge 16 or so hours to complete.

When it was finally done, I screwed up my language bar, so I restarted the computer, and the language bar was fine. But the hard drive wasn't responding so I unplugged it and replugged it back into the usb.

Damn, it said that I had to format the drive, as it is still unformated!!! So I went to format it... but then... it only gives me the option to format at 16GB??!?!?! wth happened to the rest of my storage?!?!?! I formated it anyways and it took a couple of seconds... and now, I have an external hard drive weighing over 2 KG... with a storage space of 16 GB !

HELP! No idea what the heck is going on...

I have Windows Vista 64 bit Home Premium

If there is anything else that u guys need to know in order to help me please tell, and i'll share what ever u need to know.
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