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.
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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.