Cloning to a large drive but lost capacity.
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Many disk-cloning programs will create a partition on the destination drive (in this case your 500 GB drive) only to the extent of the TOTAL VOLUME of data that's cloned. So, for example, if your source disk (the disk that was cloned) contained 80 GB of data, that size partition would be created on the destination drive to contain those cloned data contents. The remainder of the disk-space would be "unallocated". Capiche?
It's also possible that for one reason or another your IT guy created an 80 GB partition on the destination drive and left the remainder of the 500 GB drive's disk-space capacity unallocated.
In any event it's a simple exercise (assuming you desire this) to utilize Disk Management on the 500 GB drive to extend the 80 GB partition so that it encompasses the entire disk-space capacity of your 500 GB drive. Again, if that's what you want.
Read all about extending a partition from a Google search, OK?
(Incidentally we're assuming that at the present time your 500 GB drive functions fine as your boot drive, right?)
drtweak
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Windows 7 and below - Right click on Computer and click on Manage
Windows 8 and up - Right click on the Start menu and come to Computer Management
Now click on Disk Management in the menu on the left.
You will probably see like a 100-500MB partition, then another 80GB partition and then a part of the hard drive that is just black and marked as unallocated.
IF that is the case the issue is easy. Right click on the 80GB and go to Extend the partition. Then just next though everything and it just add all the extra unused space.
If there is a parition after the 80GB, which i doubt, let us know what it says.
Windows 8 and up - Right click on the Start menu and come to Computer Management
Now click on Disk Management in the menu on the left.
You will probably see like a 100-500MB partition, then another 80GB partition and then a part of the hard drive that is just black and marked as unallocated.
IF that is the case the issue is easy. Right click on the 80GB and go to Extend the partition. Then just next though everything and it just add all the extra unused space.
If there is a parition after the 80GB, which i doubt, let us know what it says.
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