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Only 320gb detected of new 1tb hard drive after restoring with system image

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June 5, 2014 3:56:43 PM

I recently got a new hard drive. My old hard drive was 320gb but the SATA input was damaged, so I got a refund and upgraded to a 1tb hard drive. Before I shipped my 320gb hard drive in for a refund, I created a system image on another home computer via our network. Today I put the system image on an external USB hard drive (there was almost 2tb of space left) and restored my computer from the system image. It worked fine, but when I checked my storage it only detects 320gb instead of my 1tb hard drive. I'm sure this is an easy fix, but I don't want to get into partitioning my drive unless it's necessary and I know what i'm doing. I'm running windows 7 ultimate.

How do I get my computer to detect the hard drive as the full 1tb instead of the size of my old hard drive, 320gb?

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a b G Storage
June 5, 2014 4:03:27 PM

Go to computer management, storage, disk management and then format the unpartioned space.
EDIT: you will end up with a second partition and a new drive letter for the remaining space on the drive. A free program like easus partition manager will merge them back into one drive for you. http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/

how to do the format:http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/partition-and...
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