Can't extend the unallocated amount

[DarkZero515]

I created an image of my 500gb HDD, recovered it to my new 1tb HDD and half of it is unallocated.

In the minitool thing, the main partition and the unallocated space aren't next to each other.

I downloaded EaseUs partition but can't figure out why I can't extend the main partition

 

[Paperdoc]

You cannot extend a Partition into Unallocated Space unless it is right next to the Partition. To do what you want you will need to move the intervening Partitions. This can be risky if anything gets corrupted while trying to move.

What MIGHT be safer would be to re-do the process with a small change. Use EaseUS to CLONE your old drive to the new one, You don't need to image and restore. BUT first READ the EaseUS manual and look for an option to specify the size of the new Partition that will be created on the new HDD to accept the data from the main large Partition. What happened the way you did it was that it simply made a new Partition the SAME size as the original, and that's not what you want. I expect EaseUS has an option to leave any of those extra small Partitions their original size, but allow you to make the one large one that has your OS and stuff in it much bigger to take up all of the space avialable.

 

[DarkZero515]

You cannot extend a Partition into Unallocated Space unless it is right next to the Partition. To do what you want you will need to move the intervening Partitions. This can be risky if anything gets corrupted while trying to move.

What MIGHT be safer would be to re-do the process with a small change. Use EaseUS to CLONE your old drive to the new one, You don't need to image and restore. BUT first READ the EaseUS manual and look for an option to specify the size of the new Partition that will be created on the new HDD to accept the data from the main large Partition. What happened the way you did it was that it simply made a new Partition the SAME size as the original, and that's not what you want. I expect EaseUS has an option to leave any of those extra small Partitions their original size, but allow you to make the one large one that has your OS and stuff in it much bigger to take up all of the space avialable.

I moved all the files to a back up drive and formatted the new drive but it still has 500gb of unallocated. Will cloning the old drive over make it have 1tb again?

 

[Paperdoc]

Doing a Format does NOT change the way the Partitions have been created on the HDD unit. It only Formats the particular Partition you already are working on.

Now, I'm a little concerned that you have "moved all the files to a back up drive". This is your boot drive you're trying to finish moving, right? To Install an OS like Windows, you can NOT merely copy files onto an empty recently-Formatted or Partitioned drive. So, if that "back up" is just a good copy of everything on the original 500 GB HDD, you cannot make a BOOTABLE new 1 TB unit by copying. On the other hand, IF you have a BOOTABLE "other drive" - either that "back up" or the original 500 GB unit - then you CAN use that as the basis of doing a CLONE to the new 1 TB unit using EaseUS and making the required change in the size of the large new Partition. The cloning operation will completely take care of several required tasks for you - wiping the new drive clean completely to start IF you let it, asking whether to use the older MBR or the newer GPT Partition system, establishing all of the required Partitions at sizes you specify, making the one Partition the BOOTABLE one, then copying everything to the correct locations.

Re the choice of Partitioning systems. The older MBR system works for any HDD up to 2 TB and will always work with any mobo's BIOS. The newer GPT system CAN be used with any system ONLY if your BIOS supports booting from a HDD that is Partitioned that way. So before you start, verify whether your mobo has support for UEFI BIOS. If it does not, choose only the MBR scheme.

 

[DarkZero515]

The drive wasn't the boot drive and I ended up running the command prompt and selecting the clean disk option to get it back to a new empty 1TB drive and copied my files over from the backup

 

[Paperdoc]

OK, glad you got the problem solved. Thanks for Best Solution.