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If any of your drives are Western Digital, you can get it free from them...

https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en

you don't need software, ctrl C then ctrl V.

would that be a good way to copy the whole hdd lol? but doenst that just make a "shortcut" of a file?

so if the original file is removed, the the shortcut becomes useless

This post was edited by noob_whacker on Jul 5 2017 04:46pm

ok so i installed the 4tb hdd. i am assuming this is an easy question, but when i clicked "new simple volume" to setup the hdd, only 3815.318 gb is available? its a 4tb hdd. Around 200 gb is gone?

hard drive manufacturers consider a gigabyte to be 1000 megabytes
windows considers it to be 1024 megabytes

thats great. and i just formatted the hdd. and now i have 3.63 tb out or the 4tb that it should be. formatting used up another nearly 200gb... da fuk lol....

so a 4tb hdd, after format, you end up loosing nearly 400 gb... if i had a 1tb hdd and lost 400 gb, the fk, how is that acceptable?

edit: well, just read online that around 5% gets taken up by the format process, to save room to work out errors.

hmmm makes sense, i read up more on it. at first i didnt find anything.

This post was edited by noob_whacker on Jul 10 2017 12:33am

Run diskmgmt.msc, where is the drive's space allocated?

im at that screen, had to in order to format it. but what do u mean where is the space allocated?

You probably have a hidden recovery partition if it's not adding up after the format.