My Recent SSHD Upgrade

[Comraven]

I just recently upgraded my 500 gb hard drive in my laptop using Reflect to a 1TB SSHD and the clone went fine except when I check my storage all I see is my original 500 GB. I am wondering if I missed a step when I did my upgrade and where did all my extra space go.

 

[getochkn]

Sounds like it didn't resize it after cloning. What sw did you use to clone it?

 

[Comraven]

Sounds like it didn't resize it after cloning. What sw did you use to clone it?

 

[Comraven]

Sounds like it didn't resize it after cloning. What sw did you use to clone it?

I used Reflect.

 

[MarkW]

Open up Disk Management, you should should see a big unallocated section right behind the cloned partition. Expand the cloned partition to take over the unallocated space.

 

[Comraven]

Open up Disk Management, you should should see a big unallocated section right behind the cloned partition. Expand the cloned partition to take over the unallocated space.

There isn't a section of unallocated space and my C: drive in Disk Management shows the capacity of 449.98 GB and free space of 151 GB.

 

[rgd1101]

can post a screenshot?

 

[sphbecker]

After opening Disk Manager, right-click on Disk Management and choose Rescan Disks (this should be unnecessary unless you hot-swapped the drives, this should happen during a reboot, still, may as well do it again).

After you have done that, you should see your Partition along with some Unallocated space. Just right-click on your partition and choose to expand it. Take all the default options and it should expand to fill the entire drive.

If for whatever reason you have unallocated space before the partition or on both sides of the partition, then you will need to use a tool to move the partition in order to fully use the space. AOMEI Partition Assistant is a good free tool for this purpose. Be warned, moving a partition takes a LONG time.

Another thing that could have happened. The hidden System partition may have been expanded when you cloned the drive. If that happened, that is not needed. You should be able to use AOMEI Partition Assistant to shrink it back to 100 MB, then expand your C drive to fill the entire drive.

Warning, be sure to backup your data before doing this. Any number of things could go wrong that could result in data loss or OS being unbootable.

 

[MarkW]

We need a screenshot of Disk Management showing what you are seeing. Windows always knows the actual size of every drive. Or should. If it is saying the drive is 500GB, it is probably 500GB.