Half of my SSD is not available Windows 11

Question

Can someone help me on how to make this space on disc 0 available in partitions? See it on the screenshot.

Answer 1

Hello there,

There are possible reasons that can be accounted for the SSD not showing the correct size:

• Vendor's capacity calculation is different from computer OS. The Virtual Memory paging file is located on the SSD/HDD.
• The SSD drive is larger than 2TB but initialized to be MBR.

If your SSD drive is over 2TB but initialized to be MBR, there is a very strong chance that the SSD reports wrong size. That is because the MBR partition style only works with disks up to 2TB in size and cannot recognize the surpassing space. The rest space will be shown as unallocated space in Disk Management and you cannot see it in Windows File Explorer. So you may find the SSD shows the wrong capacity. In this case, you can convert the SSD to GPT, which can support disk beyond 2TB.

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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Answer 2

Double post

Answer 3

Windows was not able to read the file system on partition 8 and displayed RAW for the 488.28 GB partition.

1. When was the operating system installed?

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2. When and how were the partitions modified?

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3)What are the status of the important files?

a) files are backed up to another disk drive or the cloud

b) images are backed up to another disk drive or the cloud

c) there are no backed up files or images; files need to be backed up

d) there are no backed up files or images; files need to be recovered on the 488.28 GB partition

e) there are no backed up files or images; there are no important files to backup

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4)Run these bat scripts and post share links into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive:

tuneup plus

diskpar info

(bat scripts by default prompt antivirus software and require manual overrides)

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/bsod-crashes-debugging/360137d1645183388-batch-files-use-bsod-debugging-tuneup_plus_log.bat

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https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/bsod-crashes-debugging/355861d1640707960-batch-files-use-bsod-debugging-diskparinfo.bat

Answer 4

If there are no important files then clean install Windows 11.

With BIOS UEFI the disk architecture will be GPT.

With GPT there are four default partitions: system / reserved / data / recovery

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If you want additional primary partitions GPT will allow 128 primary partitions.

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Having had a RAW partition after a recent install it is best to test the disk drive.

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Run:

HD Tune (free or trial version)

https://www.hdtune.com/

Post images or share links for results on these tabs:

a) Health

b) Benchmark

c) Full error scan

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Run:

Sea Tools for Windows

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/migrated-assets/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/SeaToolsWindowsInstaller.exe

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/migrated-assets/www-content/support-content/downloads/seatools/_shared/downloads/100869623_B.pdf

Post images or share links for results for the Long Generic test

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These tests can run overnight while sleeping:

a) HD Tune full error scan

b) Sea Tools for Windows long generic test

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions?view=windows-11

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/windows-and-gpt-faq?view=windows-11

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/clean-install-windows-11.99/

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/download-official-windows-11-iso-file-from-microsoft.1009/

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11