Hard Drive Iseue

[Beanbagman12]

System specifications 

Intel core i5 4670k 3.4GHz

MSI Z97 g45 motherboard

8gb of RAM

1TB hard drive

500 watt power supply 80+ Bronze

MSI Radeon R9 380 2gb

Windows 10 Home

 

Problem

My storage is suppose to have up to 764 of 931 gigabytes of space free, but when I opened file explorer is showed only 90 of 117 gigabytes of space free! Does anyone have a solution for this? Thank You!

[Moonzy]

Just now, Beanbagman12 said:

 

check if the rest of the storage is partitioned for use or just being left there untouched

[Beanbagman12]

It is being left untouched, and I'm trying to get it to combine with the storage that can be accessed

 

[Beanbagman12]

[Moonzy]

Just now, Beanbagman12 said:

try search for "create and format disk partitions" in your windows search and see what it says there

 

also, quote the person you're replying to so they get a notification

[Beanbagman12]

I already have

 

When I looked it up it popped up into a new of my browser 

[Beanbagman12]

And it showed nothing related to my current problems. Did you mean to open up disk manager

[Beanbagman12]

[Godlygamer23]

7 minutes ago, Beanbagman12 said:

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That recovery partition. Right click on it and see if you can reformat it. That's where all the space is that you don't have access to.

[Chris_Beans]

You will need to delete the two extra partitions and then merge the partitioned space with the c partition. In Disk Management you would choose the c partition and choose extend. That should allow you to gobble up all non-partitioned space.

 

If you use a more feature rich partition manager you can just merge all the partitions together all at once.

Edited March 19, 2016 by Chris_Beans
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[Beanbagman12]

When I right click the partitions it onlu shows help; nothing else. And it is not letting me delete the partitions that I want. And the things I have tried is restoring the computer completely

[Beanbagman12]

Chris what do you mean by a more feature rich partition.

[Beanbagman12]

[Jaggro]

If you have access to your OS disc/source then you can do a clean install and delete all partitions while you do so.

 

Just be aware that doing that will wipe your hard drive completely

[Godlygamer23]

If you have additional information to add, please try to put it within the same post. Otherwise, we may consider you to be "post farming" which is unacceptable. Please also make it a habit to quote or tag people because most people do not follow threads.

[Chris_Beans]

43 minutes ago, Beanbagman12 said:

Chris what do you mean by a more feature rich partition.

I said feature rich partition manager. I meant, a partition manager that has more features, such as the feature I mentioned. The disk manager is a "free" program it doesn't do everything some other dedicated partition programs do.

[Chris_Beans]

1 hour ago, Beanbagman12 said:

When I right click the partitions it onlu shows help; nothing else. And it is not letting me delete the partitions that I want. And the things I have tried is restoring the computer completely

Are you running as Administrator? You should have the options in my image.

Edited March 19, 2016 by Chris_Beans
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[Beanbagman12]

3 hours ago, Chris_Beans said:

Are you running as Administrator? You should have the options in my image.

It should say that but it doesn't 

[Chris_Beans]

25 minutes ago, Beanbagman12 said:

It should say that but it doesn't 

I don't know what your skill level is but you can try searching youtube for

"How to delete a healthy/recovery/system/reserved partition". This video uses the command line instead, maybe it will work for you. Only delete the empty partitions.

Again a third party application is always an option.

[Godlygamer23]

30 minutes ago, Beanbagman12 said:

It should say that but it doesn't 

If possible, I would download MiniTool Partition Wizard. It's free, and intuitive. It also allows you to make changes in the UI without actually making them happen until you hit Apply.

[Beanbagman12]

Chris everyone thank you for helping me finding out the solution to this problem