unallocated partition missing

[spychicken1]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble with a friends computer. We recently cloned his hard drive to a 1tb ssd. However, the new ssd appears to have the same size as the old drive (120gb) and does not show any unallocated space when viewing the partitions in disk management. We know the ssd is definitely 1tb, because we checked the size before cloning the old hdd onto it.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Lutfij]

I'm personally not a fan of cloning anything since anything that can go wrong does go wrong. Worse, it leaves you wondering what went wrong. Did the HDD you cloned contain more than one partition? If so, is the partition size for the OS drive 120GB? If your HDD's yet intact, reinstall the OS on your SSD, after formatting the initial (cloned)installation. Then migrate all the data you need to migrate to your SSD.

FYI, it's not a good idea to have multiple partitions on your SSD.

Assuming as such since you didn't mention the partitions on your 1TB HDD.

 

[USAFRet]

1. What software did you use to clone this?
2. So that we're all on the same page, show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[spychicken1]

1. What software did you use to clone this?
2. So that we're all on the same page, show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

We used Macrium. Here is a screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EDcvBCx63KTHEj10V0cfbFqM6USnQJTF/view?usp=sharing

 

[USAFRet]

1. What software did you use to clone this?
2. So that we're all on the same page, show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

We used Macrium. Here is a screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EDcvBCx63KTHEj10V0cfbFqM6USnQJTF/view?usp=sharing

Where did that WinRE partition come from? That is not a usual thing with Macrium.

Usually, Macrium will clone, and then leave the rest of it Unallocated. Easily fixed.

If the original drive still works, I'd suggest redoing it.
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the 450MB Recovery Partition, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
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