Cloned drive not showing all the GB , it shows less

[Ben King]

it should say 500 gb

not 152

 

[kyzarvs]

You have "New Volume" which isn't assigned to a drive letter, so isn't currently being used.

You need to delete that partition and expand C to take up the space left, or set "New Volume" to be a D:\ drive for data for example.

 

[rgd1101]

what the total size? Look like you have a partition of 313 GB.

 

[Ben King]

look on the right, only shows 152gb, my old drive size.

 

[Ben King]

now what Do i do with it ?

how do I expand my C drive ?

Giving it a new letter would create a separate drive.

I would prefer to combine the leftover GB into my current one.

 

[rgd1101]

do you know what clone mean? it mean to make identical copies of something. The old drive is 152gb, the clone drive will be 152gb.

Use something like http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
remove the new volume partition. then expand the new C drive.

 

[Ben King]

I use software to expand the drive ?

 

[Ben King]

this is what I have now

Shame I couldn't combine them.

However, on the plus side, If i upgrade to an SSD it will be easier,
because a 500gb SSD would be expensive to clone to.

 

[kyzarvs]

I use a million-year old version of Norton Partition Magic to manage my partitions - lets you expand them on the fly. My copy must be ten years old, there must be plenty of great utils on Sourceforge that can do the same thing.