Cloning a hard drive. New drive not showing.

Westwood

Westwood

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Hi. I have a pc which is functioning fine but has low disk space. I figured I would just buy a larger hard drive and use some cloning software to just clone the small drive onto the larger one and then just remove the smaller one and boot with the new larger drive.

The problem I am having is that on 3 different cloning tools, free and paid, the new drive is not visible at all. It shows in windows and I can save data to it, but it is as if it does not exist in these 3 clone tools.

Am I missing something? Any help appreciated.
 
What software are you using? I have had success with Macrium Reflect on a few occasions. How is your starting HDD partitioned? Is there a small system/boot partition in addition to your main partition?

Sorry didn't read OP properly. The issue is that the clone software is not seeing the second drive? Are you using the clone software in Windows or a custom environment? Have you tried Macrium Reflect?
 
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You could just use the smaller one for main OS stuff and another for document/programs etc? Unless the speed differs (which would obviously want OS on faster)
 
Westwood said:
Hi. I have a pc which is functioning fine but has low disk space. I figured I would just buy a larger hard drive and use some cloning software to just clone the small drive onto the larger one and then just remove the smaller one and boot with the new larger drive.

The problem I am having is that on 3 different cloning tools, free and paid, the new drive is not visible at all. It shows in windows and I can save data to it, but it is as if it does not exist in these 3 clone tools.

Am I missing something? Any help appreciated.
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what 3 software did you try? and what os,win7 or 8?
 
Thanks for all the replies. It is Windows XP SP3. I have tried Acronis True Image, XXClone and Macrium Reflect. All have the same issue. I choose the source of the clone as the C drive and when I choose the destination the larger drive does not show in any of the software.

@Scotteh - Thanks but it needs to be all on the single drive sadly. That would have been my preferred option.

Any further thoughts appreciated.
 
Just use a Clonezilla live CD. It's pretty involved settings wise but there is plenty of resources/videos out there. I've cloned many, many smaller > bigger hard drive setups
 
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