Sometimes a hard drive or SSD won’t be showing up in your system as an amount anywhere close to what should be available like this:

In the image above, it’s only showing a maximum of 49.4GB, but I know the actual space is more than this.

1. To fix this, Right click on the Start Menu and an alternate menu will come up compared to when you Left click like normal. Then Left click on Disk Management:

1. Here in Disk Management, we can see that there’s 579 MB reserved for Windows system things, and our C drive is only using 49.43GB while there is 50GB unallocated or unused (shown in the green box in the image below).

1. You’ll want to right click on the C drive partition, then select Extend Volume...

1. The Extend Volume Wizard window will pop up. You can click Next after reading the statement.
2. It should default to extending your C volume by the maximum available. It lets you choose to do less if you were wanting to create multiple partitions, but for us, you can make it the maximum available to fill the drive. Click Next. Then click Finish.

1. Back in the Disk Management window, C: should now take up the remainder of all the space on that drive and there shouldn’t be any unallocated space.

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