Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > Constipated drive

Constipated drive

Forum Storage : Hard Disks - Constipated drive

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Word :    Username :           
 

Okay, Okay, I know I did a dumb thing. I installed Vista to a 25 GB hard drive and now it is so full I cannot even run the 'Clean your Drive to Free Up Space' utility. I nosed around a bit and found software that will clone this to a larger drive, but my question is this: Will the entire size of the new drive (let's say 250 GB just for the sake of argument) be available after the cloning, or will I have a large new drive with a 25Gb partition (hence my problem will still exist) and 225 GB of unusable space? I am sure there are applications out there that do this but does anyone have some suggestions? Am I over thinking this? I am a big fan of Freeware and will trade ease of use for functionality. Thanks!! :pt1cable:

Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.

If done right you should have 1 volume with 225 GB of free space.

Reply to PsyKhiqZero

Vista allows you to expand or shrink volumes. Therefore it is a non issue.

Reply to GhislainG
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > Constipated drive
Go to:

There are 1239 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them