N120 partition... Are you given the option "not to partition" or at least chose the amount of space the hidden file uses?
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You are correct. Mine was split into a C and D drive, each with around 72 GB of free space. After you turn your N120 on, you have pop-ups from Samsung come up regarding their "Samsung Recovery Solution" and according to other reviews I've read, it is during this that you are given the opportunity to resize the two hard drives. What I read was that you will find 2 sliding bars which you will use to increase or decrease the two drives. You will have the 2 drives no matter what, your only option is how much "space" to give them. I am not very computer savvy and clicked thru these pop-ups as best as possible with out really unhderstanding them and wound up with 2 drives of 72 GB each. And I'm now told that if I want to change this I have to buy some software program designed to let you resize your drives and that I can no longer change it just with what I already own. This ticked me off to no end as all this "Samsung Recovery Solution" stuff comes up before you can get a look at the instruction/tutorial for the unit which is on the desktop of your unit. I was sorely tempted to say the unit was damaged and send it back for a new one just so I could avoid this now that I knew what to do with those pop-ups. This will pop up when you do the auto start registration of your unit. They really need a better paper, hard copy of the instructions/tutorial regarding the beginning stuff you come across after you turn your unit on. BTW, the above info regarding the sliding scales you use to determine your HD space is all 2nd to me from others in other reviews and from what I assumed when finally reading the tutorial...it is nothing I have seen first hand. I hope it all turns out ok for you, BC
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It is actually 8gb disguised as a 128 GB drive. Windows will report 128gb available but if you test it, it only holds 8gb.
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Mine is not working properly. when I save files over 128GB. The files disappear and I have only empty folders even though the drive shows that the space is being used. It is a waste of money.
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Download a freeware EaseUS partition Manager, delete the partition first, then format the partition use the fat32 format. I just format my 32gb TF micro SD card this morning
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as long as you leave it formatted in NTFS,(which is the format that mine came in with) there really isn't a size limit. If you re-format to FAT32,then it's 4gig.
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My drive failed data transfers and was unusabe. It showed 256G but even 4G could be stored and retrieved before it was loosing files and crashing. Would not recomend unless you were interested in saying you have a 256G drive that you can show. Just dont use for anything you want to keep.
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I am unfamiliar with NTFS. What would an example of that be? I'd be happy to help with more information.
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That I have no answer for. You may want to check applications under settings and choose all to see what is taking up all the space.
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When selected in "My Computer" it only shows 7.96 GB free. Apparently you'll need to utilize some sort of file compression or leave something out.
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Sorry Rissa, not really sure on that. I just know 64GB is huge, probly bigger storage than any of us ever need, ha. I HaVe just sold this though & will be removing it. Thanks for contact tho, cheers:)
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Try formating it in other way than FAT32. I use NTFS, which allowes me to copy larger files etc.
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There's no reason why you can't use this drive as a backup.You don't *have* to format it NTFS but using it as FAT will mean you can't copy files larger than 4gb. There might also be performance benefits of using NTFS; I'm not sure.There's no need to remove the drive when you shutdown.
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I also ended up using FAT32; I haven't seen any downside if you want to just store files... except the maximum file size. I don't know of any cross-platform format that has no file size limit, so my advice is FAT32 with the hope somebody else here knows of a better one! :)P.S: I have this exact product, and after a a few different attempts I found FAT32 to work for using it to move stuff from my windows 7 desktop to snow leopard macbook pro
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It'd probably be best to consult the WD web site. I didn't partition mine, but I did make it bootable.
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If you check the drive in Computer Management you should see the entire drive, part of which you don't have access to. There may be a hidden partition, one that's not recognized by Windows, or simply unallocated space that can be pulled together with the partition you do see. Be sure you remove anything from the drive you want to keep before starting this.
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depends how full... but I have 20 and it is not even half full yet... ( and some are rather bulky)...I would guess 50? 27 inches of file space...
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geez you all are so ignorant. the actual space is 64GB but a filesystem is needed to keep track of the files on the disk. how else do you expect it to work without a filesystem?