SSD Clone help!

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So I cloned my OS (W10) from a 120GB M.2 SSD to my larger Samsung 512GB SATA III SSD. I used a programme called Macrium for this, which seemed straight forward enough. The cloning finished in about 10 minutes, but suddenly what was my 512GB SSD some minutes ago is now showing up the same as my smaller SSD and that I only have 111GB on it!

Help? ^^

[ZOD]

You cloned the partition not the whole drive. Go back and do it again. Or resize the partition via disk management console.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez ZOD:

You cloned the partition not the whole drive. Go back and do it again. Or resize the partition via disk management console.

Done and sorted! Thanks chief, much appreciated.

[Omega]

You have to expand the main system partition.

Right click the start menu > Disk Management > Right click the C drive > Expand volume > accept the defaults and keep clicking next.

Początkowo opublikowane przez ZOD:

You cloned the partition not the whole drive. Go back and do it again. Or resize the partition via disk management console.

If he only cloned a single partition it wouldn't boot..

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Okay so I ran into another issue.

Despite showing up as an option in the Boot Order once in my BIOS, when i changed it to the newly cloned drive it just won't boot to Windows. When I try to restart it just keeps booting to my BIOS?

With my M.2 SSD re-installed (I've not formatted it yet so it still has my OS) I can do a Boot Overide and get the new one to boot to Windows when I select it there, but back on it's own without the M.2 SSD even selecting that just restarted the machine and boots into the BIOS. Any ideas?!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Next time or in the future, especially for any OS disk, clone "entire disk" not by partition because an OS disk contains multiple partitions as well as a boot sector for said OS.

Next time you need easy clones disk to disk for free. Just download and use the free clone software offered by the brand of the target disk drive, in this case, Samsung

Cloning software clones everything about the old drive in terms of boot sector (mbr) and it's original partition sizes and format methods that were already used. You never need to pre format a disk where it's going to be receiving a clone of an entire disk from another working disk.

Physically unplug the old smaller ssd. Then power on, enter bios and actually enable the new ssd as the only boot device.

Once in Windows again on the new drive. Plug in the old drive while pc is running. To safely do this, plug in sata power to that secondary drive, wait a brief moment then plug in the sata data cable to drive. Now it should show up as a drive letter after C drive, such as D or E drive since it contains data. Then go to Disk Management and look at the old drive and delete entirely volume. Then for data usage needs of said secondary drive, make new volume, then do a single partition and select mbr > ntfs or exFAT. Either way is fine for a data disk.

The OS drive should already be GPT + NTFS if you have uefi bios motherboard and using Win10

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Bad 💀 Motha:

Next time or in the future, especially for any OS disk, clone "entire disk" not by partition because an OS disk contains multiple partitions as well as a boot sector for said OS.

Next time you need easy clones disk to disk for free. Just download and use the free clone software offered by the brand of the target disk drive, in this case, Samsung

Thanks for the advice dude.

I managed to fix the issue in the end. I did the clone again only this time as soon as it finished I shut down my computer and took out an SSD, leaving only the newly cloned one with my OS on inside. Windows then booted up fine. The first time I did it I had both my SSD's installed when I went into the BIOS to change to boot order.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ok read my above post please