Question What did i do wrong? Cloning windows

[BillWiTheScienceFi]

I was trying to clone windows onto my new pcie m.2 SSD and i went through the instructions and used macrium reflect, once it was all done copying its now telling me I have 2 of the same storages but [A:] should be the 2TB new ssd, so why is it saying 465gb[C: is my current one w/windows]? Did i do something wrong?

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Going into disk management its showing the rest of the drive as unallocated, I alocated it before all this now if i try it, it wants a whole seperate drive letter from what i just copied windows to...
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[KingLoki]

Have a read of the website below. gives various options for unallocated space.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/unallocated-hard-drive-without-losing-data

 

[dwd999]

I was trying to clone windows onto my new pcie m.2 SSD and i went through the instructions and used macrium reflect, once it was all done copying its now telling me I have 2 of the same storages but [A:] should be the 2TB new ssd, so why is it saying 465gb[C: is my current one w/windows]? Did i do something wrong?

Pic: https://ibb.co/z43Lx12


Going into disk management its showing the rest of the drive as unallocated, I alocated it before all this now if i try it, it wants a whole seperate drive letter from what i just copied windows to...
https://ibb.co/myqLymK

When you clone a drive with Macrium a little pop up box should appear asking you if you want to expand the disk partitions to fill all the space on the larger drive. Maybe you missed that pop up or selected the wrong option. Try again and look for the pop up box.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did i do something wrong?

You didn't do cloning properly.
Cloning means - making identical copy.
Clone source drive has 3 partitions.
Clone result drive has only a single partition. Result is not bootable. EFI system partition makes it bootable.

Don't ever use drive letters A: and B: . Those are reserved for removable floppy drives. Nobody uses those.

Redo cloning properly. Clone all partitions.
After cloning is done, extend OS partition on target drive. This can be done in Disk Management.
When you boot from cloned drive for first time, clone source drive has to be physically disconnected.
This step is not optional. If you skip it, drive letters on cloned drive get messed up and you have to redo cloning.

 

[USAFRet]

REdo your clone operation.

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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
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Magician (which includes Data Migration), if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
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Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
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 all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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