Cloned 128Gb to 250Gb SDD - Can't extend partition
May 12th, 2017, 17:42
I am sure this question has been asked many times so I apologize - I'm going to ask again just for the therapeutic effect that writing down my frustrations will have! 
My current boot drive is a 128Gb Samsung Evo 830 running out of space, so I used EaseUS ToDo to clone the drive to a 250Gb Samsung Evo 850. It took some finagling because Windows 10 would not recognize the Evo 450 until I used Disk Management.
My original 128Gb has 3 partitions (see the attached image):
1) System Reserved, 350Mb NTFS
2) Boot SSD (C:) 118.46Gb NTFS
3) Recovery Partition 450Mb
The 850 Evo had the exact same 3 partitions after cloning, as well as an unsigned 4th partition making up the rest of the disk size. I expected them to be identical, but with the #2 partition being much larger instead creating a useless 4th partition.
I used Disk Management to extend #2 using the 4th partition, but no dice - it will not let me. I've now started from scratch with the 850 Evo, which is why you can't see the partitions in the screenshot.
Does anyone have any advice? All I want to do has clone my C-drive onto a larger SSD so that I can boot from that going forward, with more space available.
My current boot drive is a 128Gb Samsung Evo 830 running out of space, so I used EaseUS ToDo to clone the drive to a 250Gb Samsung Evo 850. It took some finagling because Windows 10 would not recognize the Evo 450 until I used Disk Management.
My original 128Gb has 3 partitions (see the attached image):
1) System Reserved, 350Mb NTFS
2) Boot SSD (C:) 118.46Gb NTFS
3) Recovery Partition 450Mb
The 850 Evo had the exact same 3 partitions after cloning, as well as an unsigned 4th partition making up the rest of the disk size. I expected them to be identical, but with the #2 partition being much larger instead creating a useless 4th partition.
I used Disk Management to extend #2 using the 4th partition, but no dice - it will not let me. I've now started from scratch with the 850 Evo, which is why you can't see the partitions in the screenshot.
Does anyone have any advice? All I want to do has clone my C-drive onto a larger SSD so that I can boot from that going forward, with more space available.
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- Disk 0 is my current boot C-drive. Disk 4 is the new 250Gb drive, which I reset back to a fresh start.
Re: Cloned 128Gb to 250Gb SDD - Can't extend partition
May 13th, 2017, 17:36
You clone it to the 250G drive.
Then you move the Recovery partition to the end of the drive.
Then you extend the data partition to occupy the empty space.
Also, after doing all of this, test doing a recovery to see if the recovery partition is still working okay. You do not want to discover this only after you have wiped the working drive.
Then you move the Recovery partition to the end of the drive.
Then you extend the data partition to occupy the empty space.
Also, after doing all of this, test doing a recovery to see if the recovery partition is still working okay. You do not want to discover this only after you have wiped the working drive.
Re: Cloned 128Gb to 250Gb SDD - Can't extend partition
May 13th, 2017, 17:45
AOEMI Partition Manager should work for you. You can use your mouse to make the changes that @rogfanther described.
Re: Cloned 128Gb to 250Gb SDD - Can't extend partition
May 18th, 2017, 18:30
AOEMI did the trick. Thanks so much for this. I am surprised that there is no walkthrough of this from start to finish, but all your responses got me across the finish line, so thank you.
Re: Cloned 128Gb to 250Gb SDD - Can't extend partition
May 18th, 2017, 20:11
RooiValk wrote:AOEMI did the trick. Thanks so much for this. I am surprised that there is no walkthrough of this from start to finish, but all your responses got me across the finish line, so thank you.
Great! Free software to the rescue
Thanks for sharing your results.
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