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Backed up a 500 GB HD to a 1 TB HD and only 500 GB available

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I backup up my internal 500 GB HD to a 1 TB Passport and then recovered to a 1 TB HD so I could have a spare HD, but the 1 TB HD shows 500 GB availalbe

 

How can I get the full 1 TB ?

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Allen, sorry but can you expand on what exactly the problem is here?

As I understand it, you took 500GB >> 1TB Passport >> 1TB HD and have 500GB free space, which suggests that you restored the initial 500GB backup image 'as is' from the Passport to the new 1TB HD drive and would now have 500GB of unallocated space on that drive.

If that is correct, then you can use Windows Disk Management to expand the size of the Windows volume to occupy all of the unallocated drive space.