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New SSD Install Issues

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marketsons1985

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Hmm, does this go in Memory and Storage? or Windows? or OSs? Not sure.

I'm technically savvy but not deeply trained. This gets me by in most situations mechanically, but sometimes I run into software issues. This is one of them.

A friend of mine wanted to upgrade his SSD from 128GB to 256GB while maintaining the drive's contents. No problem, easy enough. External enclosure for the new drive, Macrium, and voila. The issue is that there is now 128GB of unallocated space on the new drive that is not immediately to the right of the C: volume.

How do I get that unallocated space to join with the C: volume as an extension? The option to extend is greyed out, which I understand is due to the issue mentioned above.

Can I boot from the old drive and solve my problem somehow? I did try this but got an error about the partition type and potentially removing this boot ability of the C: partition.
 
That can all be avoided if your cloneware has proportional cloning as a setting.
 
corkyg said:
That can all be avoided if your cloneware has proportional cloning as a setting.
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I thought that feature was a demarcation between paid software utility licenses and "free" or bundled cloning software such as that which comes with Samsung drives.

I really gathered a lot of experience last year just for knowing what the various softwares do and don't do. I had to convert volumes from MBR to GPT, resize those volumes, move them from disk to disk, and arrange for dual-OSes and volumes they use to get backed up from one OS in a single set of incrementally updated image files.

But for resizing volumes during a clone operation, Mini-Tool seems like a good bet. Macrium may allow you to do it only by taking an image and restoring the image to a different size. That may have changed as they moved to version 7. Acronis also used to do proportional cloning, or allow you to increase or decrease the size of the target volume. Disk Director did it. I never tried it with True Image, so I couldn't be absolutely sure.
 
I only use Acronis TI and it does proportional cloning up and down as long as the data fits. I do it about monthly, HDDs, SSDs either way. Never a problem. I always use bootable media - never within Windows.
 
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