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SSD displays wrong storage size
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1752546" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>It appears you have unformatted space on that SSD. I'm guessing that someone either had another partition on the drive and removed it instead of merging it back. It may have been a Boot Camp partition that failed and was removed with Disk Utility instead of the Boot Camp Assistant.</p><p></p><p>Go to your Apple Menu (top left) and select "About This Mac". Then click on "System Report". Under "Hardware", click on "Storage". That will give you a positive readout of exactly which SSD you have and how large. </p><p></p><p>If the space is unformatted as I suspect, you'll need to backup your data first and then erase the SSD and format it as one partition. Then, reinstall OS X. That's the only way you will be able to reclaim that space.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1752546, member: 46727"] It appears you have unformatted space on that SSD. I'm guessing that someone either had another partition on the drive and removed it instead of merging it back. It may have been a Boot Camp partition that failed and was removed with Disk Utility instead of the Boot Camp Assistant. Go to your Apple Menu (top left) and select "About This Mac". Then click on "System Report". Under "Hardware", click on "Storage". That will give you a positive readout of exactly which SSD you have and how large. If the space is unformatted as I suspect, you'll need to backup your data first and then erase the SSD and format it as one partition. Then, reinstall OS X. That's the only way you will be able to reclaim that space. [/QUOTE]
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