I borrowed my aunt's laptop and noticed that her local disk (C:) only shows 243GB, which seems low since the total storage is 477GB. I checked the disk management and found a 200GB RAW partition that I don't understand. Is this normal? My aunt recently downgraded from Windows 11 to Windows 10, and she thinks it might be related to that. If it's not normal, how can we fix it? Would updating back to Windows 11 help? She downgraded because some of her applications were having issues with Windows 11.
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A RAW partition usually means that part of the disk isn't formatted or set up properly. If your aunt isn't missing any important data, this could just be how the disk was originally configured. You can fix it by right-clicking the RAW space in disk management and creating a new partition there.
Instead of creating a new partition, consider extending the existing C: partition if there's unallocated space.
Thanks, I created the new partition and it was assigned as D:. Is it still the same setup as C:? Can I install programs on D:?