HDD partitions become larger after cloning to SSD

[Kumar9900]

so i recently got a Samsung 850 EVO and cloned my os and personal files to it. but i noticed that some of my partitions were larger than before such as the OEM partition is now 76.84 gb but it used to be 21.64 gb when it was on my old hdd there is also a system partition which takes up 54.69 gb. im not sure if they were meant to be that large because it takes up a lot of space on the SSD and if they are not meant to be that large is there any way to reduce those partitions to minimal size and add it to the main partition.

Note the SSD is 500gb (465.76 gb when being accurate). this SDD is in a laptop. the laptop is a samsung np300-v5a-s0fau

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Kumar9900.

Not sure why this is happening. I'd recommend that you try cloning/migrating the OS again. Take a look at this guide here: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows. Other than that you could take a look at this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/. It has tips on how to slim down the storage space required by your system and offers a few ways, which should help you find out exactly what is taking that much space.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[Kumar9900]

Hey there, Kumar9900.

Not sure why this is happening. I'd recommend that you try cloning/migrating the OS again. Take a look at this guide here: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows. Other than that you could take a look at this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/. It has tips on how to slim down the storage space required by your system and offers a few ways, which should help you find out exactly what is taking that much space.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

i thought it was a cloning issue as well but after using the program described in the link the partition seem to be the same size. i have done the cloning process twice now. once with the samsung data migration and then with easeus todo but neither of them seem to do the trick i still have 54 gig resvered for system. i was able to free up some data using the disk cleaning and installing CCleaner helped as well. after this i installed the mini tools partition wiz and split the recovery partition down to 24 gig and that freed up 52 gig but i still dont get why the system reserve is 54.6 gig yet none of it is occupied. i tried to merge using the partition wizard but it says if i do that it may make my computer not boot

 

[Paperdoc]

I suspect this is what's happening. Many cloning programs have a particular way to handle moving from one drive to a larger one. They call it Proportional Partitioning, and it is the automatic default plan. It re-sizes every Partition from the old drive so that the new Partitions all are sized in the same proportions as the originals. So if your old HDD had partitions that took up 16%, 12% and 72% of that drive, the new ones on the SSD will also use up those fractions of the larger size of the new drive. Thus they are all bigger than they used to be.

As you say, this is not necessary for your case. The sizes of the original Partitions would be quite adequate for the new ones. Well, MAYBE add just a little bit for spare space. For example, your new Partitions could be made to about 24 GB for OEM, and 18GB for System, leaving 423 GB for the C: drive.

How? Re-run the cloning operation. BUT don't just let it do its thing! Normally it tells you its plan and asks for approval and permission to proceed. Instead, tell it no and look in its menu system for how to manually set each Partition size the way you want. THEN let it proceed.

 

[Kumar9900]

I suspect this is what's happening. Many cloning programs have a particular way to handle moving from one drive to a larger one. They call it Proportional Partitioning, and it is the automatic default plan. It re-sizes every Partition from the old drive so that the new Partitions all are sized in the same proportions as the originals. So if your old HDD had partitions that took up 16%, 12% and 72% of that drive, the new ones on the SSD will also use up those fractions of the larger size of the new drive. Thus they are all bigger than they used to be.

As you say, this is not necessary for your case. The sizes of the original Partitions would be quite adequate for the new ones. Well, MAYBE add just a little bit for spare space. For example, your new Partitions could be made to about 24 GB for OEM, and 18GB for System, leaving 423 GB for the C: drive.

How? Re-run the cloning operation. BUT don't just let it do its thing! Normally it tells you its plan and asks for approval and permission to proceed. Instead, tell it no and look in its menu system for how to manually set each Partition size the way you want. THEN let it proceed.

Worked Like a charm have about 420 gig available with the rest for the other 2 partitions, i used the ease us todo program because i wasnt sure if i would get the same option if i used samsung migration but anyway. thanks Paperdoc.

 

[Paperdoc]

Glad it worked. Thanks for the Best Solution.