I have a MyBook WD5000 external drive. My computers are only showing that it has 244 GB of free space, when this is a 500 GB hard drive. I had two computers backed up on it at some point, but when I went to access the info, one of the files was gone and so was all of the space with it!
It was not partitioned and I even formatted the whole thing. Still only shows 244 GB free space, and total capacity. Anyone have any ideas?
The OS doesn’t matter, as I tried it on a Windows XP 32 bit, Windows Vista 64bit, and Windows 7 64 bit. The drive is not partitioned. It should be a stand alone drive with 500GB capacity (understanding that not all 500GB are accessible.)
The drive just shows that about 256 GB is not available, not there. I went in to manage drives, and it shows that all of my drives are healthy. The only drive partitioned in the primary drive, with the recovery section.