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New SSD shows 320gb out of 500gb

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ptr1959w

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Hi there,

I'm having a problem with my new SSD which is a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB. I used the Paragon software to do a migration.What is causing this to happen? What do I need to do to fix the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated..🙂 Thanks in Advance..🙂 It shows up when I use Samsung Magician.
 
The rest of the drive space will show up as unallocated space in disk management. The drive you cloned would've been 320GB & as such the migration software only used 320GB of SSD space.
 
Basically you Cloned a Disk with a 320GB volume onto a 500GB volume Disk and ROH1T is correct.

Never trust any 3rd Party Software for Disk Management and Windows Migration. Use Basic DOS app's like Delpart, Diskpart, GHOST and GUI SYS-Prep to Migrate Windows onto new media that you have Partitioned Volumes the way you want before Dumping and only Image Partitions for Dumping NOT the entire Disk.
 
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ptr1959w said:
Hi there,

I'm having a problem with my new SSD which is a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB. I used the Paragon software to do a migration.What is causing this to happen? What do I need to do to fix the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated..🙂 Thanks in Advance..🙂 It shows up when I use Samsung Magician.
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Not a big deal at all. You can use Disk Management in Computer Management to stretch the drive to include the unused space. I haven't used Paragon in a while, but it probably does this as well. Lately I have been using EaseUS Partition Manager (it is free) and it does a great job at things like this.
 
Z15CAM said:
Basically you Cloned a Disk with a 320GB volume onto a 500GB volume Disk and ROH1T is correct.

Never trust any 3rd Party Software for Disk Management and Windows Migration. Use Basic DOS app's like Delpart, Diskpart, GHOST and GUI SYS-Prep to Migrate Windows onto new media that you have Partitioned Volumes the way you want before Dumping and only Image Partitions for Dumping NOT the entire Disk.
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3rd-party software works just fine. Maybe you haven't used any in a while?
 
[QUOTE3rd-party software works just fine. Maybe you haven't used any in a while? ][/QUOTE]

BS - Maybe for the ignorant whom don't care or don't have an understanding about being a slave just because you upgraded your hardware.

I've used Paragon, Acronis and Merc... backup methods (forget MS) but from my point of view, I would just as soon as use and understand the old fashion method as it's much more reliable.


Say what you may, but I prefer DOS Imaging and Drive preparation over GUI 3rd Party Backup and Migration App's in order to keep away from traps - Such as the OP of this thread ran into.
 
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Any migration software set correctly will move the partition. Resizing the partition using windows disk manager will take all of a few seconds to complete.
 
Any migration software set correctly will move the partition. Resizing the partition using windows disk manager will take all of a few seconds to complete.
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Have it your way and you lost your Cybernetic World - A single session of a DOS FAT32 Boot (Wins Active Fat32 Boot Partition) or MB UFI Bios into Extended Memory Rules and owns MS 😱
 
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