Question Cloned HDD is same size as Primary

[ss_56]

I cloned my SSD primary, 232mb drive to a 1tb mechanical drive. Once the cloning succeeded, the large drive became 232mb. This was okay but now that i've crashed another large hard drive, i'm needing the space.
Instead of cloning again, i thought i'd make an image this time. My question is, if i reformat that 1tb destination drive, will My Computer (windows 7) show its 1tb size again?

Thanks a lot

 

[Barty1884]

You don't strictly clone the "drive", you clone the "partitions". The 1TB drive is still a 1TB drive.
So, if the SSD was ~250GB and fully partitioned, that's all you clone over - and the HDD will act as the SSD did initially (in this case ~250GB). You can then expand the C partition in Disk Management to regain the balance of the 'lost' space.

 

[ss_56]

Okay then i need to figure out how to 'expand the C partition in Disk Management'; seems like the right course of action. let me take a look. thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

My question is, if i reformat that 1tb destination drive, will My Computer (windows 7) show its 1tb size again?

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
Generally you'd just need to expand windows partition for all space to become available.

 

[Does it work]

Windows+x>>disk management (or shortcut k), click on the drive, go to the blue section and rightclick>>extend volume go through the wizard and its done

The unused space is represented by the black sections

 

[ss_56]

Okay, i'm in windows 7 computer mang and i found the destination drive. when i right click on it, i see and option "extend volume". do i hit that or what? thanks

 

[Does it work]

Okay, i'm in windows 7 computer mang and i found the destination drive. when i right click on it, i see and option "extend volume". do i hit that or what? thanks

yup

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show the screenshot first.

If you hit extend and it asks to convert to Dynamic disk, then stop immediately.

 

[ss_56]

Show the screenshot first.

If you hit extend and it asks to convert to Dynamic disk, then stop immediately.

No, i don't see that but i'm unfamiliar with what i am seeing and some of it is greyed out. i dont know what i'm doing over here

 

[SkyNetRising]

Still waiting on that screenshot.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-pc/

Upload to imgur.com and post link to it.

 

[ss_56]

Use.com is no longer a thing so i'll try something else.

 

[Does it work]

use imgur. But here is example, The black is unused parts of the drive. Then extend partition. If yours doesn't looks like below, do send us pictures first, don't want to screw up formatting or needed partitions.

https://imgur.com/a/USJeCfX

View: https://imgur.com/a/USJeCfX

 

[ss_56]

https://imgur.com/icAiUEC

View: https://imgur.com/icAiUEC

G: is the 1tb destination drive and C: is the primary ssd

 

[ss_56]

https://imgur.com/arr8Fy8

View: https://imgur.com/arr8Fy8


once i open the extend volume 'wizard', this is what i see

 

[Does it work]

So yeah, its simply unused space, just follow my pictures above

Extend C: not F: or G:

I am curious though, why move to hdd totally, and not keep boot on ssd and use hdd as extra storage?

 

[SkyNetRising]

In that screenshot G: is the source and C: is the target.
Right-click on C: and extend it.

 

[Does it work]

In that screenshot G: is the source and C: is the target.
Right-click on C: and extend it.

I must say, the new win+shift+s it feels super weird, but taking snips is worlds easier and higher quality

 

[ss_56]

I must say, the new win+shift+s it feels super weird, but taking snips is worlds easier and higher quality

no C: is the source and G: is the destination. anyway, the wizard remove and add options are greyed out. so idk

 

[SkyNetRising]

no C: is the source and G: is the destination.

No, it is not.
Extend C: (not G: ).

 

[ss_56]

So yeah, its simply unused space, just follow my pictures above

Extend C: not F: or G:

I am curious though, why move to hdd totally, and not keep boot on ssd and use hdd as extra storage?

no i'm still booting from the c: ssd.

No, it is not.
Extend C: (not G: ).

Well Hell, you're right; the 2 drive letters are ass backwards

 

[ss_56]

Now i got it; i have the space back on "C:drive". now i need to go and change those drive letters plus be sure i actually am booting from the SSD.

 

[SkyNetRising]

No. You can't change drive letter of currently active windows partition
(well you can, but it will create serious problems, so don't).

 

[ss_56]

no i'm still booting from the c: ssd.




Well Hell, you're right; the 2 drive letters are ass backwards

No, it is not.
Extend C: (not G: ).

Thanks for pointing that out. i suppose i changed the boot order to test the clone and never changed it back...no wonder i have felt sluggish :/ So now i'm booting to the ssd again. I'd like the ssd primary drive to be named C: but i keep getting a 'incorrect parameter' error. i can live with it. At least now i'm booting to the ssd and y'all did help me get my space back on that hhd. so thank you thank you thank you!

 

[SkyNetRising]

When you boot from SSD, C: partition will be on SSD.
When you boot from HDD, C: partition will be on HDD.
That's how it's supposed to be and you should not change that.

 

[digitalgriffin]

I cloned my SSD primary, 232mb drive to a 1tb mechanical drive. Once the cloning succeeded, the large drive became 232mb. This was okay but now that i've crashed another large hard drive, i'm needing the space.
Instead of cloning again, i thought i'd make an image this time. My question is, if i reformat that 1tb destination drive, will My Computer (windows 7) show its 1tb size again?

Thanks a lot

You can go into disk management and dynamically extend the partition to use the full terabyte. I've done it before. You'll need to delete the unused partition (if it was partitioned) and re-add it as a as part of extended partition.

EDIT: Oops. Never mind. I see others have you covered with this information.