Hard Drive showing Local Disk instead of C Drive

netsuJ

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So I bought a 1TB hard drive for the computer that I built. After about a month I realized that my it shows local disk drive instead of C drive. I think that I never properly configured the drive when I first built it. How do I fix this? Thanks.

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Because of the raw partitions on the drive as per your second image.

As above if you delete those raw partitions then you can either, extend the C: or create a new partition. Personally I would create a new partition, for media, music, video, pictures etc. then if you ever have to reinstall windows everything on that drive is safe.


My friend built it for me. And I'm not sure how he partitioned this.
 


The local disk says I have 233gb. I should have 1000gb (1TB)
 


Because of the raw partitions on the drive as per your second image.

As above if you delete those raw partitions then you can either, extend the C: or create a new partition. Personally I would create a new partition, for media, music, video, pictures etc. then if you ever have to reinstall windows everything on that drive is safe.
 
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