After upgrading my Boot SSD from 60GB to 250GB, I am missing the remaining 190 GBs.

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Dead Pumpkin

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Title basically explains my problem, but other than that you should know that the SSD in question is my boot drive that holds my OS. For the past two years I've been able to get by with only a 60GB SSD since I have a 1TB HD as a platter drive. Why only 60GB for a boot drive? Budget PC. Now that I've basically maxed out my boot drive with files and programs that couldn't be stored on the platter, I successfully used tuxboot and Clonezilla to migrate/clone my original SSD to my new one. Now, maybe I was to successful because now my computer thinks this new SSD is the same old 60GB drive I had before.

Here are some things I've tried:
I used some free partition software such as easeUS and MiniTool Partition Wizard 9.1. Both told me that I indeed had about 250GBs on this new SSD, but there was no way I could find that would let me access the missing storage. Desperate, I used windirstat and ran it on my C: drive to try and see if there was some rouge files taking up an absurd amount of space for some reason. The scan came up with nothing, telling me that my SSD was still a 60GB drive.

After these attempts to try and solve my problem I continued to search the internet for answers. The only solutions I have found seem answer similar problems others have had in regard to missing storage capacity, but not identical to my issue. I am completely stumped and I need your help! If you need more info please don't hesitate to ask!
 
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You've used the default settings as in clonezilla mate ?

You're Kind of stuck , windows won't let you extend a boot partition.

Gparted livecd may do but it would be easier (if you still have the original boot drive) to reclone again properly.
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You've apparently run into the same situation thousands of other PC users have encountered when using this or that disk-cloning program. In short, the program has been designed (or misused by the user) to clone the contents of the source disk, e.g, your 60 GB SSD, to the destination disk ONLY to the extent of the size of the source disk, notwithstanding that the destination disk's total disk-space capacity can accommodate the total disk-space capacity of the source disk.

Usually this not a serious problem following the disk-cloning operation because in most cases the destination disk's Disk Management program can easily be utilized to extend the cloned partition of the unallocated disk-space via the DM's "Extend Volume" command so that the total disk-space of the destination drive will contain the cloned contents of the source disk. Hopefully, in your situation, the destination drive contains the 60 GB (or so) partition and immediately following that partition is the unallocated disk-space of about the remaining 940 GB.
 
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Here's a jointed screenshot of both Disk management and WinDirStat. Please note that the hibernation and page files are only taking about 8.8GBs of storage, which I do not mind having if I'm able to access the other 190 GBs of my SSD.

Does this answer your questions?

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Since the screenshot is blurrier than expected I'll fill you in on the important parts. On the left is Disk managment which says my ssd is only 60GB. On the right, the big red boxes are the hibernate and page files which only take up 8.8GB together.
 
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Unfortunately I have already tried to use several programs in order to "extend" the partition to include the rest of the drive, but anytime I attempt it, the option is grey'd out or it tells me there's no more space to extend. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated!
 
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You've used the default settings as in clonezilla mate ?

You're Kind of stuck , windows won't let you extend a boot partition.

Gparted livecd may do but it would be easier (if you still have the original boot drive) to reclone again properly.
 
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I do have the original boot drive! So you're saying I should use the Gparted live program instead?
 
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So I finally solved my problem. Thanks to the person who suggested I should just start the cloning process over again since I still had my original source drive intact. All I did was stick my original SSD back in my computer, booted from it, and then wipe my new SSD clean. From there I used minitool partition wizard 9.1 which allowed me to successfully make an identical bootable drive with the maximum space available for my C: drive.
 
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