Inspiron N5050 shows the capacity of the hard disk bad

I put a new 1 TB HDD in my Inspiron N5050 to replace the 500 GB one. I moved all my content on the new hard drive using the disk image and repair system I did of the old hard drive. Now when I go to "computer" it always shows the hard disk of 500 GB (actually 468) not the 1 TB hard drive. How to make the computer recognize the appropriate hard drive capacity? Sorry if I posted in the wrong place, I didn't know where to put this post because he could be in several places.

I found the answer to my question on YouTube (of all places). I have now 1 operation section entirely on my hard drive (no unallocated space). I should have done a little more research before posting here, but thank you Dell community with his presence. PROBLEM SOLVED!

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