Hardrive space missing?

So i just got my laptop Repaired by hp and they shipped it to me, so i was downloading some files i needed to work on when i notice they my maxed hard drive space was not the same when i bought it or before i shipped it to hp for repairs right now my laptop before the repair had 750gb of hard drive space now it only has 433gb, i don't know what to do i feel like i been scammed or they took a piece of hardive out of my laptop

OK the recovery partition is "in the way" so you cannot just extend the C drive. The only way to just add the unallocated space would be to go ahead and make the recovery media (DVD or thumb drive) and then delete the recovery partition then you could extend the C drive to fill up the whole disk. You could also just create a new volume in the unallocated space, format it, assign it a drive letter and you could then use it for storage. You could move your Music, pictures or whatever to it.

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