Windows 10: windows 10 not recognising whole of HDD

Hi all, recently changed my HD by cloning up from 250 to 500G HDD using Active@ to get extra space. clone apparently succeeded with very few errors told cloner to skip those spots . error seemed to fix itself on start up as system ran a disc chk itself.

Now, on using the desktop HP EliteDesk - win 10 pro I note that hard drive shows in my pc as 126 G C , and 105G free in drive M D when actual primary disc size is definitely 500G. cant seem to get this fixed within device manager etc.. so tried partition manager in Active @ and resized C up to use all the unallocated space extra 200 or so G . seemed to work. ?

BUT..still showing C drive as 126G 20 G free in "this PC". not having the extra HDD space avail is a problem!


source disc cloned was a 250G. current snip enc.


any ideas?

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Not recognising HDD

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When it is not showing up in "my computer" it is also not appearing on device manager.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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