- An external drive is removable storage, that's why it shows up as that, it is a storage device, and you can remove it <smile>
Also, A drive's available capacity will always be less than it's total capacity because of preinstalled formatting software -
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Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: [access-uk] 2 questions about my external hard drive, please help
hi all i have 2 questions 1 is that when i connect my external hard drive it is showing under removeable storage devices in computer icon why does a hard drive show in a removeable storage device cluster and 2 the total capasity of the hard drive is 160gb when i formatted i changed the file system from ex fat(defalt) to ntfs but now im getting only 129gb of free space with no data on the drive whare has my 31 gb gone? is changing the file system wrong? -- created using a dell inspiron mini 10(1012) NETBOOK win7ultimate ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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