hard drive showing less capacity

[compeuter10]

sir my hard disk was around 600gb before partition but after partition showing 303gb total size of my hard disk why ? i am thinking some body steal my hard disk original one and replaced
with less capacity , can this possible ?

 

[Recycled]

Option 1: Can You get to the hard disk, and take a picture of the label on it? (Hint: turn off the computer and open the case to see the hard disk.) Then we could see what the physical capacity of that hard disk is supposed to be.

Option 2: Can You go to Your Control Panel -> Device Manager and find the Hard Disk? Mine shows as a "HGST HTS721010A9E630 ATA Device." A Google search for HTS721010A9E630 shows it's a 1TB hard disk.

Option 3: Can You go to Your Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> right click on Disk Management (Local) -> and click on Your C: drive. This will show the partition table. What do You see there? Mine shows "System Reserved 356MB" and "C: 931.16GB NTFS."

Obviously, my machine is not the one with the problem. Mine is a laptop with a HGST TravelStar 1TB 2.5" spinning hard disk in it.

--Andy

 

[compeuter10]

Option 1: Can You get to the hard disk, and take a picture of the label on it? (Hint: turn off the computer and open the case to see the hard disk.) Then we could see what the physical capacity of that hard disk is supposed to be.

Option 2: Can You go to Your Control Panel -> Device Manager and find the Hard Disk? Mine shows as a "HGST HTS721010A9E630 ATA Device." A Google search for HTS721010A9E630 shows it's a 1TB hard disk.

Option 3: Can You go to Your Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> right click on Disk Management (Local) -> and click on Your C: drive. This will show the partition table. What do You see there? Mine shows "System Reserved 356MB" and "C: 931.16GB NTFS."

Obviously, my machine is not the one with the problem. Mine is a laptop with a HGST TravelStar 1TB 2.5" spinning hard disk in it.

--Andy

 

[compeuter10]

thanks sir , i went to the partition part of my lap and it displaye DISK 0 BASIC 596.17 GB ONLINE c: 29.19 gb nfts, d: 273.91 GB NFTS, 292.96 GB FREE SPACE NOT SHOWING ANY DRIVE , 9 MB UN ALLOCATE ,SYSTEM RESERVED 100 MB NFTS
NOW WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHAT IS THE REAL CAPACITY IS IT 596.17 DISK 0 THAN WHAY SHOWING 303 GB HARD DISK CAPACITY ON OTHER WAY? AND HOW I TO USE SUCH FREE SPACE AND MAKE IT ANOTHER PARTITION

 

[Recycled]

Good news: You do have a 600GB physical disk in there. Nobody stole it.

The bad news is: Wow, someone really messed up partitioning and formatting Your hard disk.
Your "C" drive is 29GB. (that's way to small)
Your "D" drive is 293GB.
You have 292GB of unallocated space.

How hard would it be to reinstall everything? I would make my "C" drive 600GB.

Alternately, You could allocated an "E" drive that uses the rest of the unallocated space.

I'm sorry about the next part...I am not good at writing tutorials on how to partition disks. I'll have to turn You over to someone else (or a YouTube search on how to "partition a hard disk in Windows.")

--Andy