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    After disk image cant see all disk space

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by superduty, Mar 20, 2010.

  1. superduty

    superduty Notebook Consultant

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    My C drive with Windows 7 was a 250gb hard drive. I made an image of it using Win 7. I then installed a 1TB drive and restored the image to the 1TB drive. Now the 1TB drive shows that it is 250gb (actually 232gb, same as the original 250gb drive used to show). How can I get the 750gb back? I want one drive letter (c :) for the whole thing. Is this possible? Or did I miss something back when I was restoring the image?

    Thanks for the help
     
    superduty, Mar 20, 2010
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    Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc there select the extend partition or volume option, dont remember exactly.
     
    OldMX, Mar 20, 2010
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  3. superduty

    superduty Notebook Consultant

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    Cool, that looks like an easy solution!

    Is there any good reason to have partitions on a HDD? Should I just leave it at 250 gb and 750gb or should I make it one partition of 1TB?
     
    superduty, Mar 21, 2010
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  4. M Kapral

    M Kapral Notebook Consultant

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    Some people put all of their documents, pictures, videos, etc on 1 partition and then OS and applications on another. Most applications can have their output sent to the partition that has the documents and such on it.

    Basically what this does, is if your OS gets really messed up and you have to reinstall it, you won't have to worry about losing, or backing up your personal data and you can easily just put the OS on the OS partition.

    Did that make any sense? It did to me :p
     
    M Kapral, Mar 21, 2010
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