The year of manufacture of the WD drive shown in the picture is Sep 2015. It is impossible for it to be an MBR drive. If from the time you bought it it was not showing 3TB , why are you not returning it? It looks like an used, manipulated and defective HDD. Please take up the matter with the store.
If you run a program that will display the model # information of the drive, it would be very interesting to see what it comes up with.
any recommendations ?
let me know I hate this hdd from the get go
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@NavyLCDR U got me thinking I will remove all stickers and take Pictures from every angle and see if we see a number if not // at Least we can see how much gb it is really ISI will do this later today
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I totaly Agree With u
I am Just happy that some one belives me when i sayid these guys where messing with my pc
any way the solution is an EZ Fix i will get a new SSD any way and new memory
Run CrystalDiskInfo. That will read the true make, model number, size and serial number from the drive's firmware. See if any of them match what is on the label. I use the portable apps version.
CrystalDiskInfo Portable (disk health monitoring) | PortableApps.com
The stickers/ numbers on the hard drive mean nothing if they are stuck on a 256GB drive, which seems to be the situation. A program such as Crystal Disk Info which reads the information from the controller board will tell you the real story.
Hey, Firas, all indicators show that drive to a 240gig drive which will show up in Windows as 223gig.
See this post - Does 240GB ssd show up as full 240GB? | Tom's Hardware Forum. And a 256gig drive would show up as 238.47 which is what shows for my 256gig SSD drive.
Anyway what makes you think the drive is supposed to be a 3TB drive? BTW brand and model number would help.
The OP gave a link to a photo of the drive in post #9: https://i.imgur.com/cQO4ySt.jpg
It is clearly labelled as a 3TB WD Green drive, but the suspicion is that it has been relabelled and is in fact a scam.
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