You may view your hard drive in Disk Management and see unallocated space. The space will be on the hard drive, but Windows cannot use it. It is like having a spare room in your house but locked off.

Windows comes with a built tool— Disk Management —that offers a complete solution to manage hard disks on the computer. You can use it to shrink volume, increase volume or portion size, create new ...

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