How to use extra 250GB of free space on cloned SSD?

[farmfowls]

I just cloned my old SSD (250gb) onto my new SSD (500gb) and got it into the computer. Everything is fine except for the fact that it is not using the extra 250GB of free space. I'd like to add it on to the C drive instead of creating a new drive for the volume.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

https://imgur.com/a/UeWbfV8

 

[nobspls]

Try this tool here:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

You can use it to redo your parititions without having to reinstall windows.

See:
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/resize-partition.html

 

[k1114]

Right click C: and see if you can extend.

 

[jankerson]

I just cloned my old SSD (250gb) onto my new SSD (500gb) and got it into the computer. Everything is fine except for the fact that it is not using the extra 250GB of free space. I'd like to add it on to the C drive instead of creating a new drive for the volume.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

https://imgur.com/a/UeWbfV8

What did you use to clone the drive?

 

[CountMike]

Just initialize that partition, give it a letter.

 

[farmfowls]

I just cloned my old SSD (250gb) onto my new SSD (500gb) and got it into the computer. Everything is fine except for the fact that it is not using the extra 250GB of free space. I'd like to add it on to the C drive instead of creating a new drive for the volume.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

https://imgur.com/a/UeWbfV8

What did you use to clone the drive?

Macrium Reflect.

 

[farmfowls]

Just initialize that partition, give it a letter.

But I want it to be added to this pool.

https://imgur.com/a/v3cq5JM

 

[farmfowls]

Try this tool here:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

You can use it to redo your parititions without having to reinstall windows.

See:
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/resize-partition.html

Didn't work. In order to merge the partitions, I guess they have to be beside each other. But I have no idea how to do that.

And what do you mean by redo partitions?

 

[CountMike]

You don't really need that recovery partition in the middle. you can merge it with empty one and than with C. You can make a recovery partition at the end of disk later on.

 

[farmfowls]

Right click C: and see if you can extend.

Extend is greyed out.

 

[CountMike]

This http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/gparted_live.html can make a bootable USB and you can do it from it.

 

[nobspls]

Try this tool here:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

You can use it to redo your parititions without having to reinstall windows.

See:
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/resize-partition.html

Didn't work. In order to merge the partitions, I guess they have to be beside each other. But I have no idea how to do that.

And what do you mean by redo partitions?

You have use the partition wizard to move a partition to the end of the blank space first.
Then you can use partition wizard to extend your C: partition to use all the blank space.
Do NOT create blank partition to get yourself stuck for no good reason.

 

[farmfowls]

Try this tool here:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

You can use it to redo your parititions without having to reinstall windows.

See:
https://www.minitool.com/help-pw/resize-partition.html

Didn't work. In order to merge the partitions, I guess they have to be beside each other. But I have no idea how to do that.

And what do you mean by redo partitions?

You have use the partition wizard to move a partition to the end of the blank space first.
Then you can use partition wizard to extend your C: partition to use all the blank space.
Do NOT create blank partition to get yourself stuck for no good reason.

How do I move them? Is there a name for the process?

 

[k1114]

Right click the free space and delete. It needs to be unallocated to extend to.

 

[farmfowls]

Right click the free space and delete. It needs to be unallocated to extend to.

That's the first thing I tried. If the free unallocated space is not beside the volume it does't work.

 

[k1114]

The tool he gave has a move partition function.