Unlocking SSD Space Swift 5 (SF514-54GT)

folkieboater
folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
My Swift 5 (SF514-54GT) has just come back from repair - having had a new wifi card and Bios update.

I've just realised that there is only 256GB of SSD available rather than 512GB. Assuming this is the same disk, how do I unlock the rest for use? 

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  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,332 Trailblazer
    edited November 2020 Answer ✓
    Right-click the unallocated space and click NEW VOLUME. Also, can you provide the exact model of the laptop? Example SF514-54GT-58VH.
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  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,600 Trailblazer
    edited November 2020 Answer ✓
    There is just the one drive. It was bought as a 512GB...
    Just checked the spec...it was bought as 1TB...that was the biggest available. It's been a long few months  =)

    Hi,
    Yes, you can right click the unallocated space and create a new volume, give it a drive letter, you can use NTFS system for storage, if you want you can leave an unallocated space of 10-20GB at the end of the drive.

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  • Hi,
    Could you please post the Disk Management snip like in my snip.

  • folkieboater
    folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
    This...
  • Hi,
    You have a 1TB drive and 715GB unallocated space, do you have only a 1TB HDD? Could you please go to Device manager, expand Disk drives and post the snip.

  • folkieboater
    folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
    There is just the one drive. It was bought as a 512GB...

  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,332 Trailblazer
    edited November 2020 Answer ✓
    Right-click the unallocated space and click NEW VOLUME. Also, can you provide the exact model of the laptop? Example SF514-54GT-58VH.
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  • folkieboater
    folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
    Its a Swift 5 SF514-54GT-74LV. Is it OK to use the whole "space" it allows 732571MB? And NTFS or exFAT? Whats better? Likely to use for files...
  • folkieboater
    folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
    edited November 2020
    There is just the one drive. It was bought as a 512GB...
    Just checked the spec...it was bought as 1TB...that was the biggest available. It's been a long few months  =)

  • brummyfan2
    brummyfan2 ACE Posts: 28,600 Trailblazer
    edited November 2020 Answer ✓
    There is just the one drive. It was bought as a 512GB...
    Just checked the spec...it was bought as 1TB...that was the biggest available. It's been a long few months  =)

    Hi,
    Yes, you can right click the unallocated space and create a new volume, give it a drive letter, you can use NTFS system for storage, if you want you can leave an unallocated space of 10-20GB at the end of the drive.
  • folkieboater
    folkieboater Member Posts: 18 Troubleshooter
    Thanks very much to both of you.

    Didn’t want to do anything hasty as I spent yesterday putting everything back on after the repair and Windows reinstall. Thought that was the answer, but seemed too easy  =)
  • You are welcome too.
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