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

Tsremix777

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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?
 
Solution
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-format-a-disk-in-windows/
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-format-a-disk-in-windows/
 
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