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01-17-2019 11:33 AM
Recently I upgraded the SSD on my HP ZBook 15u (Windows 10) from a 500 GB drive to a 1 TB drive. Cloned the hard drive, replaced it in my laptop. Everything appears to function well, except that it does not show the proper disk space. It claims that the drive is ~500 GB, not 1 TB.
I went through Disk Management and it doesn't show any unpartitioned space. There are small particians for recovery and the main C partition, but that's it. Together, it does not allocate for the full 1 TB. The computer sees the correct model number for the memory (Kingston SA1000M8960G). Drivers are all up to date.
In BIOS I cannot seem to locate the drive, but I can run a drive test. It says that SMART passes and Short DST is not available. So I cannot see in the BIOS if it reads the proper disk space. Is this a BIOS issues? It was updated in August 2018, so maybe I should update that. But is there anything else that may be done in order to get my computer to recognize the full disk space of the new SSD?
As I said, other than displaying half the space it should, everything else appears to be functioning properly. Laptop boots up and is functional.
Thank you
01-17-2019 12:05 PM
Well, you cloned 500GB to 1TB, the cloning process took 500GB and gave the rest as unallocated space. Now, please use Disk Management tool to assign unalloacted space and give it a drive letter , for example 😧 or you can merge to C: if you wish. The following tutorials will help you to assign 😧 to unallocated space.
https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/how-to-add-unallocated-space-to-d-drive.html
Regards.
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