[SOLVED] I cloned everything from one of my 500GB HDD to a 2TB HDD, having issues

johnnycheddar78

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So after cloning, It cloned fine, except that theres 1397.25GB unallocatable (if thats even a word lol) I tried doing a new simple volume, nope. Says there isnt enough space, keep in mind I did exactly what was left of the HDD. Then to see if it worked, I tried just 1GB to see if I had a space issue and nope, didnt work either. Since i know people are gonna ask this ill post a screenshot of disk managment

https://imgur.com/gallery/pzoVGnC

Yes, it is setup as MBR
 
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MBR is limited to only 4 partitions, and you've got 4 partitions before the unallocated space. MBR got around this limit by making the 4th partition a special partition (called an extended partition) onto which you could place sub-partitions (called logical partitions). But if you make just 4 primary partitions, you can't make any more on an MBR disk.

Try converting the partitioning scheme to GPT. Windows lets you have up to 128 partitions with GPT. Unfortunately you don't give any description of your system, but that partition layout looks like Windows 8 or 10. You should be OK if so, since they generally require GPT to boot on UEFI systems with secure boot enabled (MBR is only bootable with secure boot disabled)...
MBR is limited to only 4 partitions, and you've got 4 partitions before the unallocated space. MBR got around this limit by making the 4th partition a special partition (called an extended partition) onto which you could place sub-partitions (called logical partitions). But if you make just 4 primary partitions, you can't make any more on an MBR disk.

Try converting the partitioning scheme to GPT. Windows lets you have up to 128 partitions with GPT. Unfortunately you don't give any description of your system, but that partition layout looks like Windows 8 or 10. You should be OK if so, since they generally require GPT to boot on UEFI systems with secure boot enabled (MBR is only bootable with secure boot disabled).

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/convert-MBR-disk-to-GPT-disk.html
 
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