Solved How do I recover apparent unused space on my hard drive?

[zarfs]

I'm running Windows 7 Pro with all updates.

I noticed in Disk Management (see attached screen shot) that my second hard drive (Drive G) seems to have a section that is going unused. It's not listed as unallocated space; it's not identified in any way.

I've been overhauling my computer and wonder whether in the process I've allowed a virtual drive or clone drive or something like that to be created.

Is that really unused space? If so, how do I reclaim it?

PS: That hard drive used to be a dynamic drive. I changed it back to basic drive while retaining the data. The unused space appeared in the dynamic drive as well.

 

[pbcopter]

What is the size of the G: drive.

What you are seeing is just a display anomaly in how Windows displays in Disk Management. All of my drives display the same way.

 

[BJB]

Is that really unused space? If so, how do I reclaim it?

Have you tried expanding the G drive in disk management?

 

[zarfs]

Additional information

When I booted Nero to burn a disk, its browser shows a drive that does not appear in Windows Explorer or Disk Management. It is drive F and is labeled BD-ROM. Whatever it is, I'd like to get rid of it.

 

[BJB]

BD-ROM is a virtual CD/DVD drive created by Nero in RAM. You can use it just like a real drive by mounting an ISO in it. But it's nothing to do with your original question.

 

[zarfs]

To pbcopter — The drive in question is a Maxtor 6L3000S0. Seagate rates its capacity as 300 GB.

 

[zarfs]

To BJB — I went to Disk Management to try expanding the G drive, but that option is greyed out.

 

[pbcopter]

As I said, the display of the drives you are seeing in Disk Management is normal.

All the available space on disk 1 is used and is normal..

 

[AddRAM]

Unused space ? What are you talking about ?

Disk 1 is 279 GB and that`s what it shows.

It only looks a bit smaller because the drive above it is 465 GBs

 

[zarfs]

Many thanks to you all. I guess working on computers makes me paranoid.

 

[lehnerus2000]

View Settings

You can change the View:

• Click on the Settings button (or use the menu - View > Settings)
• Click on the Scaling tab

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[andrew129260]

And if you ever mess with the view settings and want to reset it back to windows defaults, see here:


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/318122-mmc-console-settings-reset-default.html

Many thanks to you all. I guess working on computers makes me paranoid.

Once you break a few things, it goes away