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April 13th, 2020 14:00
Maximum supported hdd size for e6520
I've just upgraded my hdd to 1TB, but only 200GB is recognized. Did I waste money or is there a work around for this?
Earth Suit
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Posted April 13th, 2020 14:00
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That does not sound right.
https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Drive_Partition_Limits_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Earth Suit
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Posted April 13th, 2020 15:00
That's why I'm confused. Of course, dell support only looks for an OS up to XP for this system. Could there be a bios or firmware limitation?
U2CAMEB4ME
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Posted April 14th, 2020 07:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @Earth Suit
No freeware utility needed!!!
It is built into W10 and it's called "Disk Management"
Best regards,
U2
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Posted April 14th, 2020 07:00
Thank you for your reply @U2CAMEB4ME. I had looked at disk manager, and it helped me realize the actual issue, but could not solve it for me. The disk had this partition structure:
System Reserved Partition | C Partition | * Partition | Unallocated Partition
Since the unallocated partition was at the end of the line, and not before any of the others, I could not merge it. At least, that's my understanding.
U2CAMEB4ME
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Posted April 14th, 2020 08:00
Ya I hate that partition.
I use a "Command" prompt and delete the partition using "Diskpart"
Regards,
U2
If you had actually wrote that you cloned your existing HDD to the SSD, then we could have told you what happened.
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Posted April 13th, 2020 23:00
I re-examined the old hdd this morning seeing that it is a 180GB SSD. Then it hit me that the issue wasn't that the laptop could not recognize a 1TB hdd, it was a matter of partition size and location. When I cloned the old drive to the new, I didn't take into account the nearly 800GB of unallocated space behind the volume 3 partition.
The easy fix was to download a freeware utility to merge the unallocated space with the "C" partition. Problem solved.