upgraded to an ssd, but windows recognizes the wrong capacity
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The reason why is because you cloned it you can safely go into windows and extend the partition using the disk manager if it is ntfs. I used to clone my partition back in the day and i always had to extend it if i cloned a smaller drive to a larger drive after i boot into windows.
Your other option is to make a new partition unless you want it a single partition. Under the disk management in windows you click right click on the drive and there should be something labeled extend or shrink a partition. Just extend the partition and your good. It still wont show up as one terabyte as they don't measure them as binary like your os does so it will show as around 931gb i think.
Your other option is to make a new partition unless you want it a single partition. Under the disk management in windows you click right click on the drive and there should be something labeled extend or shrink a partition. Just extend the partition and your good. It still wont show up as one terabyte as they don't measure them as binary like your os does so it will show as around 931gb i think.
VERY likely you missed using an option in Macrium Reflect's cloning process.
To do the cloning operation, you run the software and select the Source and Destination storage units, then select which Partitions on the Source unit you want to clone to the Destination. By default, it probably makes the Partitions on the Destination unit the same size as the originals on the Source. That is not really what you want, because your Destination unit has much more space available. Look closely a the screen where all those choices are made, especially at the bottom centre. Make sure the Partition on the Destination unit that is to be used for the copy of your main Partition from the Source is highlighted. Then click on the "Cloned Partition Properties" link at the bottom. This will open a new screen where you can change those properties to make the cloned Partition on the Destination unit as large as you can, so that it uses up all the space available there. When you have all these settings the way you want them, you can allow the system to do the job.
So, if you understand how to use this tool, re-do your cloning operation so that the SSD has a much larger main Partition and uses all the space it can get.
To do the cloning operation, you run the software and select the Source and Destination storage units, then select which Partitions on the Source unit you want to clone to the Destination. By default, it probably makes the Partitions on the Destination unit the same size as the originals on the Source. That is not really what you want, because your Destination unit has much more space available. Look closely a the screen where all those choices are made, especially at the bottom centre. Make sure the Partition on the Destination unit that is to be used for the copy of your main Partition from the Source is highlighted. Then click on the "Cloned Partition Properties" link at the bottom. This will open a new screen where you can change those properties to make the cloned Partition on the Destination unit as large as you can, so that it uses up all the space available there. When you have all these settings the way you want them, you can allow the system to do the job.
So, if you understand how to use this tool, re-do your cloning operation so that the SSD has a much larger main Partition and uses all the space it can get.
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He don't have to do it all again though he can just extend the partition and Fixed Next time he may want to do it the correct way. It takes less than 2 minutes to extend the partition. I wouldn't re-clone it as it will take a long time and there is no point. Just extend the partition.
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I sent a reply to your inbox but i will post here with a tutorial. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2670-partition-volume-extend.html This is for windows 7 that forum has a windows 8 and 10 section also and they most likely have a tutorial for the other oses on the other forums. Look at the top of the page for the windows 8 and 10 forums link where you can find the correct tutorial for your operating system.
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