Clone a harddrive

[bauch1234]

i have a one tb hdd that im wanting to clone to an 4 tb reflect isn't partitioning the drive right it leaves like 3 tbs free and i cant use disk mgr to merge them any suggestions i am on a legacy bios but was told that it should work with out going to uefi with my mobo


System Specs:
mobo ga-970a-ds3p
gpu evga geforce 960 ftw 4gb
cpu fx-8320e@ 4.0

 

[clutchc]

You have to extend the partition. Use the free version of http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/index.htm
It will allow you to "edit" your clone operation to extend the partition to include the whole drive.

 

[bauch1234]

It didn't let me edit the petition let me do a clone it will take aprox 3 hrs according to it

 

[clutchc]

It didn't let me edit the petition let me do a clone it will take aprox 3 hrs according to it

The "edit" option is kind of obscurely located. When you get the screen that has the source and destination drive on it, there should be an option to edit right above the destination drive if it is bigger than the source dive. I'm going from memory... I just did a clone between HDDs 3 days ago with it and used it to extend the partition myself.

I can't help you with the 3 hours. If you are cloning a large partition between mechanical drives, it will take awhile. Sometimes the estimate isn't always correct, tho.

 

[bauch1234]

well that didnt work so im going to try installing uefi to the new drive and moving everything manually and wouldn't let me edit the partition

 

[clutchc]

well that didnt work so im going to try installing uefi to the new drive and moving everything manually and wouldn't let me edit the partition

Huh? It didn't work? You couldn't slide the partition to make it the full length of the drive's graph bar? My version allows that with UEFI and legacy drives both.

 

[bauch1234]

no it would let slide it smaller but not any bigger

 

[clutchc]

I've cloned at least a dozen HDDs/SSDs with that program and never ran into that. Any chance of posting a screenshot of that so I can see what it looks like for you?
Btw, you are cloning a smaller drive to a larger drive as you stated, right? And you have a UEFI motherboard that allows you to use the full 4TB, right?