Harddrive Cloning problem

[Daniel Coley]

Okay so I cloned my harddrive, but I cloned for the reason of having a larger storage capacity. I cloned my old 300Gb drive to a larger external 1Tb driver. But for some reason windows is reading the 1Tb drive as if its just a 300Gb drive. How can I clone my drive while also taking advantage of my full 1Tb drive?

Thanks

 

[junkeymonkey]

if this helps ??

''Finishing Up: Boot Up and Expand the Partition''

http://lifehacker.com/5517688/how-to-upgrade-your-tiny-hard-drive-to-a-spacious-new-one-and-keep-your-data-intact

http://www.disk-partition.com/articles/extend-partition-after-cloning-1004.html

 

[Daniel Coley]

if this helps ??

''Finishing Up: Boot Up and Expand the Partition''

http://lifehacker.com/5517688/how-to-upgrade-your-tiny-hard-drive-to-a-spacious-new-one-and-keep-your-data-intact

http://www.disk-partition.com/articles/extend-partition-after-cloning-1004.html

I merged the partitions and got all my storage back to the drive I cloned to. I restarted my PC and everything was much quicker than my older drive I cloned from(I can only assume this booted with the new and larger HDD). I turned off my PC and removed the SATA Cable from my older drive. I started up the PC again and I couldn't boot to the newer drive. So I plugged in the older drive and set the boot order to the older drive as a primary. Now my PC is booting from my older and slower drive.

How can I use my cloned drive as my primary drive?

Thanks.

 

[junkeymonkey]

see if the answer here helps on that

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2857849/windows-boot-ssd-cloning.html


may just need to fix the boot manager

 

[Daniel Coley]

see if the answer here helps on that

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2857849/windows-boot-ssd-cloning.html


may just need to fix the boot manager

I'm on Windows 10 and I only have a copy of windows 7. I've even tried to switch the boot sequence to the new harddrive and It says the harddrive is in accessible.

 

[junkeymonkey]

don't know maybe should of stayed with 7 ?? no point overwriting a know working solid stable os for something like 10 ?? upgrades don't come with a disk that has the repair options and your now at that mercy ???

looks like a lot hangs on getting the boot manager straight in order to become bootable ?? [at least that's a step involved ]

http://superuser.com/questions/469793/the-boot-selection-failed-because-a-required-device-is-inaccessible-0xc000000e

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/inaccessiblebootdevice-windows-10-after-clone/4167cc4c-b932-411d-aa24-be22dffd691b?auth=1