New hard drive recognized?

[rcnhl2b]

HI, I just replaced my hard drive. Everything finally worked out ok. I did a system restore with my restore disks. Windows 8 loaded fine, then my upgrade to Windows 10 was good too. I happen to notice that the new 1tb drive I installed shows only 70GB free of 119GB when I look in 'this pc-C drive'.

Some more info. from HP support assistant:

Hard disk drive 0 shows 931GB free, so that is correct, but partition 1 shows 70GB free of 119GB. Then I see 810GB 'unallocated'

Why is 810GB unallocated and not being used for storage? I didn't but a 1TB hard drive to be able to use only 119GB.

Please help. Thank you.

[erico]

How large was the original hard disk?

You can create a partition and format it from within Disk Management.

Hold down the Windows key and tap the X key once.  Put the cursor on Disk Management and right-click on it.

Put the cursor on the unallocated space and right click it. Click on Create volume and then click on format. 

That should do it.

Now all you have to do is make sure that you create folders in the new volume to use for storage or programs.

[Huffer]

I am not sure but if you look in disk management and the unallocated space is just to the right of the C: drive partition all you need to do is extend the existing partition. 

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/shrink-and-extend-ntfs-volumes-in-windows/

[rcnhl2b]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it did not look like you described. When I get to Disk Mangagement and right click on the 810GB unallocated I don't get 'create volume'. I get this option 'new simple volume' and that leads me to a wizard to create a new simple volume on a disk. I did not complete this because I didn't want to do anything I could not reverse if it the wrong thing to experiment with.

My original hard drive was 1TB and the replacement is the same mfgr. and size, same model too. Windows 10.

Please let me know if you have a solution. Thanks.

[rcnhl2b]

Thank you but the link you sent is for older Windows. I am using Windows 10. Any suggestions for Windows 10?

[rcnhl2b]

Also, when I right click on the C drive that I want to expand, the option to 'shrink volume' is highlighted and the option to 'expand volume' is not. It's the opposite of what I want to do. 

[Huffer]

You are going to have to give us a screenshot of the disk management console. It has worked the same since Windows Vista. In order to expand the C: drive the unallocated space has to be right next to it. If there is a partition in between it will not work. 

[rcnhl2b]

 

I'm not sure you can read this if it is too small.  The second attachment is a little bigger. The unallocated 810GB is next to the 831MB Healthy recovery partition not the 'C' drive with only 119GB. If it is not next to it physically, I can't believe that means I can't use 80% of the 1TB hard drive I just bought and installed. Isn't there a way to use the 810GB? Why have a 1TB drive to only be able to use 20% of it?Thank you for any help you can give!!

[Huffer]

All you have to do is get rid of the recovery partition. Make the HP recovery disk using the HP Backup and Recovery app and it will ask if you want to delete the recovery partition. Say yes and then the unallocated space will be adjacent to the C:\ drive and you can extend into it. 

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/delete-recovery-partition.html

However you installed Windows 10 the sytem created a 128 gig approximate C:\ drive. Not sure how you did it but if your original system had a 128 gig drive then whatever you did just recreated that in the 1 TB space. 

[rcnhl2b]

Thanks for you help, but something did not work. See below for what I got after I made a USB recovery drive. It did not ask me if I wanted to delete the recovery partition, it just finished making the usb drive and said finish. Below is what disk management now shows. I made a recovery drive, but nothing else changed. I still can't delete the unallocaed file. I didn't use HP recovery app because I didn't see where to find it. I used the windows 'create a recovery drive'. Now what??