External Hard Drive Showing Wrong Capacity

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Why Do Hard Drives Show the Wrong Capacity in Windows? Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated July 10, 2017, 10:26pm EDT If you’ve ever purchased a computer with a hard disk capacity of 500 GB and opened Windows Explorer only to find that its capacity looked more like 440 GB, you may be wondering where all those gigabytes went. Explains why a hard drive's capacity often appears to be less than advertised when displaying in Windows or Mac operating systems. Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10) capacity.

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Gotta new iMac 27' running El Capitan and I'm in the process of transferring my files from my old Windows machine to my Mac. The drive in question is a 3TB Seagate drive that was NTFS formatted on my Windows machine. I never partitioned it and when formatted it displayed 2.32TB of available space in Windows 10.

I connected the drive via an external enclosure and USB (2.0) cable. OS X said it couldn't read the drive, so I transferred all of my files onto another external drive on my windows machine, connected it back up to my Mac, and formatted it to the Apple standard. It did format, however it says I only have 801.57 GB capacity, 801.44 available. I've ejected the drive, reformatted it, and chose the 'Apple Partition Map' as an option and still the same. I hope I covered all the bases?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

- Jon K.