How much space does it have when formatted? I'm trying to use it as a bootable drive and I need at least 7.3GB. Can it be used as a bootable drive?
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I Haven't formatted mine I just plugged it in and started storing stuff on it but it is a 32 GB so I would imagine it should have enough space,hope that helps.
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Formatted to 7.798 GB space available (8 GB version). For a bootable drive, I'd go to the 32 GB version.
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For NTFS the max file size for that drive would be the capacity of the drive. For FAT32 it would be limited to 4Gb file size. It comes formatted in FAT32.
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this is one drive and stores 64 gigs. hope you have better luck than i did. I used it to store anime episodes and after about the first 10 episodes it would say corrupted data from there on. also did the same with anything else i put on it and i dont have that problem with other drives
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Mine has a 60GB HD. Just for info, am very happy with it. Beautiful screen, fairly fast boot up, and does everything that I need.
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I did not use the two drives as a bootable drive but as an external drive in a NexStar external drive holder.Pnce they were formatted they acted exactly like a regular drive which is why I bought a second one.
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I am not quite sure since this was for my son and he used it. I said Used it because just last week when he turned it on he was asked to format it. We took it to a computer store to get it looked at and they said it was no data on the drive to recover. It had a bad sector and won't work. So we are in the process to see what we should do now. Soooo upset since we had just bought this November 26, 2011. Sorry that I could not help you.
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You're not losing all that space to any "formatting", you're just prey to marketing and confusing computer lingo. Hard drive manufacturers dictate a 1GB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes whereas Windows calculates 1GB it as 1,073,741,824. Technically speaking, windows version of GB really should be referred to as GiB rather than GB. A 500GB hard drive sold by Maxtor/WD/Seagate etc. will show in windows as 465.5 GB. Just as these 8GB cards show as 7.44GB. For simplifying, you can pretty much divide the stated capacity by 1.074 to see what you're actually going to get.
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Hello. It will vary. You should probably see about 230GB usable remaining space give or take after the install of Windows 7.
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64GB SDXC OK.. I formatted as exFAT instead of NTFS. Turn off wireless and connect to PC will be able to read/write files. My 32GB USB has FAT and works OK.
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Depends on what definition you use, but it's 96GB--I've had it for more than a year and there's still room on the drive
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about 6gb of the total capacity is used for the OS and other apps, the rest is free space. source: I own one.
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I will agree with the other two comments.. Just upgrade the drive to a larger size. Storage is pretty cheap these days. Good Luck!
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Hey Matt I have used up to 16 gb so far with no problems. I bet you could use any size, as operationally its not different software so good luck! Hope it helps!
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The device comes with a FAT32 partition, which is quite limited but very compatible.I repartitioned my USB Flash drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and so files on it can be as large as the device.
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I don't think I use it any more. It has been awhile, but I recall having problems with it...but I can't be sure.Truth is you will see no real ("butt dyno in car-nut speak<G>) difference between the different specs in real world experience, so it is not worth pursuing IMHO.If on a system drive, go with an SSd -- even w/Sata2 the difference will wow you. 120GB is plenty big enough unless you had hundreds of application, then 240. $150 or less. Keep data off the boot drive.
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I'm running it with a 4 TB drive right now. Works great. I'm running Linux. It all just worked "out of the box" without needing drivers, Disk Manager, patches, or anything like that. You just have to remember to format your drive with "gpt" partition table, because the default ("msdos") partition table maxed out at 2 TB and will no longer work.
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Yes, but it has to be formatted to exFAT if you want the files to be over 4gbs. (NTFS also for Windows)