Hard Drive Space Missing after a new Windows install.

[jeffontrack]

Hi,
First time posting here, today I did a install of Windows 10, as for some reason resetting the PC didn't work and I'm giving this PC to a friend, I installed it a very lazy way by just opening the ISO and going through the setup within Windows, Windows install went fine, but when I went to Explorer A new partition appeared called system, I thought that's strange. I tried to open the drive, said it needed Admin priveleges, after that it says the drive cannot be accessed. So I went to Disk Partition to delete it and allocate it to the C drive, but that drive wasn't showing up there, so I decided to do a Clean install of Windows, when I had to choose what drive to install it to, it was still missing, I deleted all the Partitions made a new one and the total size of that one is around 600GB of a 1TB Hard Drive.
Sorry for writing this much
Has anyone experienced this before?

 

[USAFRet]

That is the boot partition.
It is supposed to exist. You cannot delete it.

Now..it may have mistakenly been given a drive letter.

Please post a screencap of your Disk Management window, so that we're all on the same page.

 

[jeffontrack]

So now I'm using the 682 GB of what 1 TB or 9**GB should be. https://imgur.com/a/4nUCno7

 

[USAFRet]

So now I'm using the 682 GB of what 1 TB or 9**GB should be. https://imgur.com/a/4nUCno7

What is the actual make/model of this drive?
And which OS is this?
If Win 10...just redo it. But not with only the ISO...rather create a bootable USB stick with the MediaCreation tool.
Boot from that, delete ALL partitions on it, and start over.

 

[jeffontrack]

It's a HGST HDD off of a laptop, it's windows 10, I did make a bootable USB drive, but it isn't showing up during install either, when I delete all partitions all I got were the 680GB.

 

[USAFRet]

It's a HGST HDD off of a laptop, it's windows 10, I did make a bootable USB drive, but it isn't showing up during install either, when I delete all partitions all I got were the 680GB.

Can you verify the exact part number on this drive?
Showing 698.64 GB (from your screencap) is pretty much exactly what a "750GB drive" would read as.

 

[jeffontrack]

Thanks, now I feel dumb, I was so sure it was 1TB, thanks so much

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks, now I feel dumb, I was so sure it was 1TB, thanks so much

Hey, we've ALL been there...:lol: