Hp Envy notebook where is my hard drive?

I am possibly being very dimwitted but I can't seem to find the full 1TB hard drive that my Hp Envy m6-1115tx notebook should have. When I open the disk drives it only displays 100gb in the C Drive, and the Recovery Drive (along with DVD Drive). Does Windows 8/this model of notebook store the hard drive in a hidden place? I should note the notebook is a display model so the store had to reset it before selling it to me - I am worried they've done something to the hard drive and now I only have a tenth of what I should have.

You should be seeing the whole 1 TB. I bet the people at the store messed up the partitioning of the drive when they wiped it.  Open disk management:
Here's How:
Swipe up from the Start screen and touch the All apps icon. With a mouse, right-click on the Start screen and click the All apps icon.
On the Apps screen, scroll or swipe toward the right and locate Windows System.
Click on or touch Control Panel, located under the Windows System category.
Windows 8 open Control Panel on the Desktop.
Click on or touch the System and Security link.
Note: You won't see System and Security if your Control Panel view is set to Small icons or Large icons. If you are on one of those views, just touch or click on Administrative Tools and then skip to Step 6.
In the System and Security window, click or touch the Administrative Tools heading, located at or near the bottom of the screen. You may need to scroll down to see it.
With Administrative Tools now open, double-tap or double-click on Computer Management.
With Computer Management now open, click or touch Disk Management, located on the left-hand side of the Computer Management window, under the Storage heading. If you don't see it, you may need to expand Storage by clicking or touching the |> icon next to it.
Disk Management may take several seconds to load but will eventually appear to the right.
You can now format a hard drive, change a drive's letter, or whatever other task you were planning from Windows 8's Disk Management utility.
If you know how to take a screen shot do it and post it but you may see a disk (likely disk 0) which has a big blank space in it. Take a look and post back. If only part of the drive is partitioned you can enlarge the existing partition or make a new partition which will then take a new drive letter.

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