Upgrading HDD to larger size SSD problems

getee · Aug 23, 2014

Hi, I tried to upgrade a laptop HDD 250GB to a SSD 500GB, I used a Astone 2bay Docking station to clone the original HDD to the SSD. It has worked and the laptop does work but when I go to computer and look under the storage it say it has 38GB left out of 111GB. How do I get it to utilise all of the 500GB of the SSD.

P.S. I did not format the SSD before cloning, should I have done this and is that the problem?

Thank you in advance for any help or ideas.

Samat · Aug 24, 2014

You need to go to computer management, under storage > disk management find your SSD. Right click on your drive and select extend volume. This should get you to prompt to extend your disk volume to use the rest of the drive aswell. To run computer management press windows key + r to open run prompt and type 'compmgmt.msc' and press enter.

Not formatting the SSD before cloning had no effect. Cloning a drive simply keeps the data as it was on old drive, including the size of the drive.

Paperdoc · Aug 24, 2014

Lots of cloning software has an option to change the size of the Destination Drive when the clone copy is made, so you can move to a larger storage device. But the stand-alone docking stations I've seen are not that sophisticated - their internal software only knows how to make the clone copy the SAME size as the original.

JohnnyLucky · Aug 25, 2014

A fresh clean install is the preferred method of installation. Cloning software works reasonably well but sometimes glitches develop. This forum has had more than its fair share of questions about cloning issues.

leeb2013 · Aug 25, 2014

And then theres partition Alignment, which needs to be done to ensure full ssd speed is achieved. Some cloning software does it automatically but I'm guessing a docking station wouldn't.

getee · Aug 25, 2014

Thanks everyone for your help. Samat I tried your suggestion but no luck there as the OS is Vista and would not come up with a selection to extend the volume. Paperdoc I am yet to try your solution tomorrow by putting the HDD's into my PC and using cloning software. JohnyLucky I am trying to avoid a clean install for the moment if I can. leeb2013 I am going to try cloning software and see how that goes.

Once again thank you all for your help and I will post a solution when and if I find one.

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