SSD hard drive advice please.

[tight fart]

So today whilst bored in the office and messing about wiping old drive before binning them, I noticed on my desktop, the hard drive was nearly full, so having a spare 1tb SSD I thought I’d clone it and swap it over.
Once installed although it worked the boot time has gone from less than a minute to 10 minutes.
So out it came to put the old one back.
Then I noticed that the old drive is a 240gb while the pc shows it as partition as 118gb local and 349mb system?
What’s the other half of the drive doing and why would it be hidden?
And how do I get it back?

[tight fart]

Can I just go ahead with “new simple volume”?

[tribbles]

Yes. It'll end up as another drive by default.

[budgie smuggler]

tight fart said:

What s the other half of the drive doing and why would it be hidden?

Probably it was cloned from another smaller SSD drive and the person who did it forgot to expand the volume afterwards

[nvubu]

You could use partition management software to move the recovery partition to the end of the drive and then expand the C partition to take up the extra space.

I've used a paid version of EaseUS Partition Manager in the past to do this - I notice it is now free for single users.

[budgie smuggler]

nvubu said:

You could use partition management software to move the recovery partition to the end of the drive and then expand the C partition to take up the extra space.

I've used a paid version of EaseUS Partition Manager in the past to do this - I notice it is now free for single users.

Exactly, or the live CD/USB of gparted which is free but the UI is bit rougher around the edges. Perfectly reliable though.

[tight fart]

Thanks, I’m currently trying to make a bootable usb recovery stick so I can delete that partition.
Then I should be able to expand the C drive. It’s been running for 3 hours now!
(According to YouTube)

[nvubu]

I don't think I ever had to do that, it might reboot and run in something that looks like DOS to move the partition.

I'd also do them as separate actions rather that queue them up. I think the expand "should" be quite quick.

[tight fart]

Thanks all sorted and running normally, needed to delete using DOS Command prompt.