>drive Z: thought it was 400 GB, but My Computer reports it as 200 GB. Writing data beyond 256GB could cause this. I have read about situations where high-capacity drives are installed on computers with disk controllers that do not have an address space wide enough to span the the disk's capacity. Everything is fine as long as you don't need to write to a part of the drive that needs the missing high address bits. When you finally get around to needing the last bits you have a problem when the drive starts to overwrite lower addresses because that high bit is not being communicated to the drive. This results in sudden data loss.
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