20gig Xbox HD showing up as only 14gig?

[silverpenguin7]

I brought my nephew a 20gig Xbox 360 hard drive from company via Amazon (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=8) and he told me today that when he plugged it in it only showed as being 14gig. I know drives usually show up a little less than full capacity but surely over 25% less isn't right?

It was advertised as a genuine 360 drive although apparently it only came wrapped in plastic in a brown box.

Sounds to me like maybe the company might have put a smaller drive in?

[jester]

I would have thought not, depends on the formatting and anything else MS pur on there that you cannot see.

[Damage Inc]

14GB sounds about right to me.

[charlie angel]

That sounds right - about 6gb is used as space for updates, dashboard, system cache & that sort of stuff.

[AKPiggott]

The (horrible) packacing that MS use for their drives is useless once opened, so if it's a used drive it won't be properly packaged.

14 gig is about right once formatted, yes.

[silverpenguin7]

Great stuff, thanks for confirming all :D

[daboy3000]

I never understood that, where has the 6gb gone, you still have all your normal day to day stuff if you just use a memory card, also how do they justify calling it 20gb. Not sure why i'm worring so much as i've got a 250gb!!

[captaineyecatch]

Most of the 6gig is used for the xbox1 emulations - remember all xbox1 games had a HDD and so they all used it for quick data access.

[tom_servo]

Hate to break it to you, but that's how all hard drives are formatted. There's one separate partition used for cache, system data, drivers, etc.