Hard drive size materially wrong

[crossy]

Hi there - I am a bit of a simpleton, so apologies for my lack of technical knowledge, but all responses need to be in 'idiots' language!
My C drive was running out of memory - it was a 500gb drive according to windows explorer - as i had a 1.5gb drive i thought i would mirror it and swap it over. on mirroring the new drive, i took out the old drive only to find it was actually a 1tb drive.
I put it back in again, and ran disk management which shows 3 partitions.
7.8gb healthy recovery, 300mb system and 923gb NTFS healthy
But then on the top section it says windows 7 c: capacity as 500gb with 269gb free space.
Now I am running windows 10 from upgrade of 7. I would think i should have in Total 500gb (another 250gb) free somehow!
Can anyone help?
thanks

Simon

 

[USAFRet]

Hi there - I am a bit of a simpleton, so apologies for my lack of technical knowledge, but all responses need to be in 'idiots' language!
My C drive was running out of memory - it was a 500gb drive according to windows explorer - as i had a 1.5gb drive i thought i would mirror it and swap it over. on mirroring the new drive, i took out the old drive only to find it was actually a 1tb drive.
I put it back in again, and ran disk management which shows 3 partitions.
7.8gb healthy recovery, 300mb system and 923gb NTFS healthy
But then on the top section it says windows 7 c: capacity as 500gb with 269gb free space.
Now I am running windows 10 from upgrade of 7. I would think i should have in Total 500gb (another 250gb) free somehow!
Can anyone help?
thanks

Simon

Can you post a screencap of your disk management window?

 

[crossy]

HI USAFRet

How do you do that - when i press the picture button it is asking for a url? how do i post a screen print?

Sorry this is my first post on this site so getting to know my way around?

Simon

 

[USAFRet]

HI USAFRet

How do you do that - when i press the picture button it is asking for a url? how do i post a screen print?

Sorry this is my first post on this site so getting to know my way around?

Simon

Here ya go:
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2580030/detailed-instructions-posting-images-tom-hardware.html

 

[crossy]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eevnjzm6j2ten84/Image%202.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u3f8fl6wpeczto/Image%203.png?dl=0

hopefully you will see them here

 

[USAFRet]

Disk 0 - 1TB
Disk 1 - 2TB

Now....why is Disk 0 only showing to be 500GB in the top portion.

 

[crossy]

Yes exactly? and where does the 256gb spare capacity come from? one would expect it to be either be 12gb per the windows properties windows explorer or 512gb (500 + 12)

Disk 1 is a totally separate hard drive and is at full 2tb capacity.

 

[crossy]

bump! Can anyone help with this please?

 

[rgd1101]

wonder if because you did the drive compression and now it size info are mess up.

 

[USAFRet]

wonder if because you did the drive compression and now it size info are mess up.

Right...that's what I was thinking.

 

[rgd1101]

If you backup all your data, you could try some of the re-partitioning tool are try resize it.

 

[crossy]

Thanks - to re-partition the drive, would the core programs, Office, windows etc need reinstalling?
How did i do a drive compression?
really appreciate your swift response and kind help.

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks - to re-partition the drive, would the core programs, Office, windows etc need reinstalling?
How did i do a drive compression?
really appreciate your swift response and kind help.

Back up any critical data on that drive.
Be prepared for if things go really wrong.

From your second image above, Uncheck "Compress this drive to save disk space"
See what happens.