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    missing harddrive memory

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lovehank1, Jan 21, 2010.

  1. lovehank1

    lovehank1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys,



    I recently changed/upgraded my hard drive from a samsung 250gb to a hitachi 320gb on xps1330 dell. I carried out the following steps.



    1/ Made system repair disk

    2/ full backup of files including system image

    3/ changed over hard drives and ran repair disk, then system image



    All is well with my system except that looking in my c drive gives the memory as the same as my old drive,

    So what have I not done correctly and more importantly how do I correct this.

    Thanks, for the record my OS is windows 7 32bit ultimate which was an upgrade from vista ultimate
     
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  2. Judicator

    Judicator Judged and found wanting.

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    I suspect when you imaged over your old disk, you created a partition on your new disk that was the same size as your old disk, and thus the extra space on your new disk is sitting in an unformatted partition. Go to Disk Management and see if you can extend the current system partition to encompass the full disk.
     
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    lovehank1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    can you give me detailson how to do this, do you know a way to do it from scratch again by reinstalling on new drive again?
    cheers
     
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Disk Management is a part of computer management.
     
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  5. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    Start->Right click computer-> Manage-> Disk Management
    In Disk Management you can extend in to Unallocated partition.
     
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    lovehank1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i had found the disk management etc, however on right clicking on the c drive (os) there is no option to increase, its grey. I can see the unallocated 65gb of free space.
    further advice please.
    cheers
     
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    Right click the Unallocated partition,click on simple volume, then allocate whole volume in MB,assign a drive letter,format the partition(mostly NTFS),tick quick format and when the wizard finishes you can extend your C in to that partition.
     
    ellalan, Jan 21, 2010
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