I just bought a new laptop - a Lenovo IdeaPad Y520-15.
It has a 128gb SSD and a 1tb HDD. The thing I noticed now is that HDD displays only 1gb of space.
I checked the HDD model (st1000lm035-1rk172) and indeed it should have 1 terabyte of space.
Is the HDD flawed or am I missing something after installing windows?
Screenshot of the hard drive:
Screenshot of the hard drive properties:
1 Answer
It appeared that there was unallocated space on the drive itself. You mentioned that you found that out once you went to the Disk Management settings.
For those who find this answer through a search engine:
Right click the start menu and select Disk Management. If you are not on windows 8 or 10, then you can find Disk Management through Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. (Or type diskmgmt.msc at a Run prompt or command prompt.)
From there, locate the disk and see if it has unallocated space. If so, right click the partition in front and choose expand.
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