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I bought new Fujitsu Ultrabook, that has a space of 500 GB, but my C-Drive is showing 29 GB only, I don't know what is the issue.

I went to the disk management, there I found 2 disk, disk 0 basic with unallocated space of 465 GB and Disk 1 with one partition of 29 GB:

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How to recover the full storage for C-drive without re-installing Windows 8? I can't opt for this option as I have some original software installed in it.

I am not a technical person, what would be a step by step process to recover the C-drive space?

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  • I know this isn't what you want to hear, but I would strongly suggest reinstalling Windows. 29 GB simply isn't enough for the OS, you will fill it up and performance will start to suffer. An SSD of this size is usually meant to act as a cache for a larger HDD, and perhaps it's an error on the part of the manufacturer that your computer was not set up this way. You could also try contacting Fujitsu customer support about this issue.
    – Indrek
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 9:04
  • @Indrek That's what I thought too, but I think this is actually a fairly common setup for Ultrabooks - of course, Windows must be properly configured by the manufacturer to use the secondary HDD for everything else, but that's not the case here - it wasn't even allocated. I think a call to Fujitsu is also warranted, at least to let them know they screwed up somewhere, and a customer is having to work his/her way around it.
    – zack_falcon
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 10:03

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You can not recover the space from drive C because you never lost it - your laptop model looks to be equipped with an SSD, and an HDD.

The usual setup for that kind of hardware is that the OS is installed on the faster SSD, and everything else goes on the slower HDD. Why your HDD is unallocated, and thus, unavailable is beyond me - could be an error on the manufacturer's part.

Anyway, here's my suggestion:

  • Right click on the unallocated space, and click New Simple Volume
  • This will start a Wizard. Click Next to continue.
  • You will be asked to specify the size (Simple Volume Size in MB). I suggest inputting the max disk space, because 500GB nowadays is not much.
  • Click Next to continue.
  • You will be asked to assign a Drive Letter. Windows is smart enough not to assign a Drive Letter that is already in use, so you can leave this as is, and click Next again.
  • You will be asked for the formatting options - again, Windows sets some defaults, so you can leave this as is. Click Next to continue.

  • Click Finish and you should see a new drive, called "New Simple Volume".

  • Optionally, you can relocate your files (Documents, Downloads, Music, Videos, etc) to drive D. Getting this to work similar to Windows' 'stock' configuration will take some work. It's not too technical, just a little tedious. If you want more information about the latter, see here.

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  • I tried creating simple volume for the Disk 0 with unallocated space and it created E drive but when I tried to extend the C-drive the extended option was greyed mean disable.
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:46
  • You can't extend one physical drive on to another, without using some complex RAID solution, or some other software. Basically, Your C-Drive is physically separated from your D-Drive - you can only extend the C to the D when both are from the same physical hard drive.
    – zack_falcon
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:52
  • But, I am working and I need to save my work due to low space I can't save it. Is there anyway I can use space that is available but not showing and save my work on it.
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:55
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    Which is why I suggested you relocate your work to Drive D, which has 500 or so GB. Again, Windows should've been configured to do this, but for some reason, it's not. What kind of work do you do, and where do you save it?
    – zack_falcon
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:56
  • I am working on Word Doc. and need to save bigger PDF files and writing work.
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59
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As it follows from your image, your drive C indeed has only 30Gb capacity with about 400Mb reserved for some recovery information. There is no way to extend the capacity of this drive.

However, as you have probably noticed, there is a second drive installed with 465Gb of unallocated space. You can right click on it to allocate some disks and then format them. Once this is done, the disks can be assigned certain drive letters and used for storage.

Unfortunately it is not possoble to merge the space from two physical devices into one, hence you will only hae 30 Gb for your system files and you might want to change your configuration in the way that apps and programs are installed on a secondary drive. This is somewhat tricky and you better seek some professional help if you are not sure.

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  • So, what should I do? Shall I take help from professionals?
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:36
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Your notebook is equipped with a 32 GB SSD. This is where Windows is installed. Whatever drove the manufacturer to do this, I cannot fathom. It's rather insane.

The 500 GB drive is the unpartitioned space you're seeing.

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  • So, what you suggest?
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:42
  • Create a partition (right click -> New Simple Volume) and be done with it. Everything else entails moving Windows away from the IMHO way too small SSD.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:46
  • will it increase the storage of C-drive?
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:48
  • No, that's impossible, as the others already stated.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:50
  • Oh means! i can't have enough storage for C-drive. Is there no way I can have the storage. Because when I bought Fujitsu they claim with the storage of 500 GB, was that a big lie?
    – Ghaza Jawaid
    Commented Mar 3, 2014 at 8:53

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