So I got a new laptop gigabyte p35xv6-pc1 and i decided to buy a BPX 480gb NVMe drive and install it myself and make it my boot drive. Problem is it comes with the OS on a 1tb drive. So I had planned on just reinstalling windows because its clean but my buddy, who is an engineer and works with this stuff all the time was like "nooooo just clone it. I know it is a smaller drive it will be fine." He felt reinstalling drivers would be a bigger pain in the ass which honestly with this thing i dont agree i mean you get a disk with all the drivers on it whats the freaking problem.
Anyways I digress, so we used Symnetec ghost to clone it and it worked kinda. I mean so far it seems to run smooth and its super fast and whatever, but in disk management and in diskpart it says the drive capacity is 1TB drive when its actually 480gb. However, in exporer or in properties it still shows the partition or disk as its correct size. In addition, the orignal drive had a recovery partition for repairing and reinstalling windows which seems to no longer work. Luckily i kept the original clone image so I suppose I could put it back on the original drive and start over but that seems like a waste of time.
I spoke with with gigabyte and they said windows cd key is encrypted with the bios so i can just burn a windows disk and install worst case scenario; thus, im not to worried about the recovery partition. But the partition thinking its bigger than it is really bothers me. I understand why it happened but cant figure out how to fix it short of just reinstalling or recloning after shrinking the main partition and not includeing the extra space. So Im sorry this is probably a terrible summary on the situation, but ask whatever questions and I will answer as best as I can. Would love some help, input and knowledge so please help and thanks.
Anyways I digress, so we used Symnetec ghost to clone it and it worked kinda. I mean so far it seems to run smooth and its super fast and whatever, but in disk management and in diskpart it says the drive capacity is 1TB drive when its actually 480gb. However, in exporer or in properties it still shows the partition or disk as its correct size. In addition, the orignal drive had a recovery partition for repairing and reinstalling windows which seems to no longer work. Luckily i kept the original clone image so I suppose I could put it back on the original drive and start over but that seems like a waste of time.
I spoke with with gigabyte and they said windows cd key is encrypted with the bios so i can just burn a windows disk and install worst case scenario; thus, im not to worried about the recovery partition. But the partition thinking its bigger than it is really bothers me. I understand why it happened but cant figure out how to fix it short of just reinstalling or recloning after shrinking the main partition and not includeing the extra space. So Im sorry this is probably a terrible summary on the situation, but ask whatever questions and I will answer as best as I can. Would love some help, input and knowledge so please help and thanks.
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