<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 24, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Germain M. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<div>I bought a SimpleTech 750gig external HD. It was Windows formatted in the first place. Once mounted, info window showed the drive had 699 gig free. As suggested in the instruction manual (and as should be done) anyway), I reformated the drive Mac OS Extended journaled. Still 699 gig free. Is there a way te recover this huge amount of lost gig? What are they used for and by what (whom)? Are there some hidden Windows programs and files left on the HD. If so, how to et rid of them to recover that space?</div><div><br></div><div>First, I wanted to format the drivve with the "zero" option in Disk Utility but it told me ot would take 7 hours and I didn't want to wait. This is the very first external HD I buy.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>The GBs not lost, they were never there. It is the art of the Marketing department that they advertise 750GB when it is really 700GB.<div><br></div><div>If you look closely on the box, it will say somewhere 750,000,000,000 bytes or something like that.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Nick Scalise</div><div><a href="mailto:nickscalise@cox.net">nickscalise@cox.net</a></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>