250gig drive shows as 1000gigs

December 2, 2005 2:57 PM

Macfirewirefilter: I just bought a minimate--250gigs. It shows up on my desktop as being 1000gigs plus. Do i really have that extra space? Is something wrong?
posted by amberglow to computers & internet (6 comments total)

I just opened disk utility to verify it, and it failed--now it doesn't show up anymore---should i erase and reformat?
posted by amberglow at 3:00 PM on December 2, 2005

and this was the error message:
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.

Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
posted by amberglow at 3:01 PM on December 2, 2005

:/

if you JUST bought it, i'd just return it for a different one to be on the safe side. sounds like it's got problems.
posted by booknerd at 3:05 PM on December 2, 2005

I would reformat it. Easy enough to do with Disk Utility. If afterwards it reports a different capacity than you expect, or unmounts suddenly, I would return it for replacement.
posted by Rothko at 3:14 PM on December 2, 2005

i tried erase, and it does it, apparently, but won't mount afterward (and it shows in disk utility as 2.0 TB Micronet). I guess i'll have to exchange it....i only just unpacked it today. thanks.
posted by amberglow at 3:32 PM on December 2, 2005

I got it to work! I brought it in to work, and called them, and they said to disk utility it (which i had already done at home), so i connected to my G5 there, and it erased and reformatted and mounted perfectly. So far, so good! thanks all.
posted by amberglow at 6:17 AM on December 8, 2005