Ok, so I think I did a noob thing.
I had in my machine until Sunday, a Crucial M4 128Gb, which had (well, I thought it had) my OS on and it was getting rather full, only 9gb left.
Also in this machine I had:
1 x 830 480Gb SSD - All my games (steam, origin etc....)
2 x WD Cav Black 1TB (storage / pics / vids)
So, I bought myself a nice new Samsung 850 Pro and like a good little boy...did some reading (Bled - thanks for continuing to contribute on the storage section
) and I downloaded Macrium Reflect.
I unplugged all other drives (left the 128Gb Crucial in) and inserted the 500GB 850 PRo.
Booted into windows, loaded up Macrium Reflect, initialised the new sammy using computer management (Disk management).
Then hit clone.
Powered down, removed all drives and put the sammy as C:\ on my mobo primary (0) SATA3 (6GB/sec) controller and switched back on.
This is where the nighmare began.
Needless to say It wouldn't boot, no bottable media.
I put the old Crucial M4 back in (on its own) and it wouldn't boot into windows....no bootable media. (a little bit of panic set in)
little reading around and it could be that windows did a sly thing and left the important boot info on one of my other drives when I initially installed windows way back when, and when I originally cloned to the crucial (using my crucial install kit many moons ago) I got lucky and all went well ? It cloned the majority of info and was still able to read the necessary off one of the other drives in order to boot and function.......Possible??
Ok, so now I abandoned the clone and did a fresh install (yes a real PITA)
But I am left with this odd Partition ?
So my nice new Sammy 850 Pro has a C:\ volume of 119gb (the same as the old Crucial M4)
With the remainder being unallocated (357.70 GB) ?? (see pic)
What do I do to correct this ?
any help...most appreciated.
I had in my machine until Sunday, a Crucial M4 128Gb, which had (well, I thought it had) my OS on and it was getting rather full, only 9gb left.
Also in this machine I had:
1 x 830 480Gb SSD - All my games (steam, origin etc....)
2 x WD Cav Black 1TB (storage / pics / vids)
So, I bought myself a nice new Samsung 850 Pro and like a good little boy...did some reading (Bled - thanks for continuing to contribute on the storage section
) and I downloaded Macrium Reflect.I unplugged all other drives (left the 128Gb Crucial in) and inserted the 500GB 850 PRo.
Booted into windows, loaded up Macrium Reflect, initialised the new sammy using computer management (Disk management).
Then hit clone.
Powered down, removed all drives and put the sammy as C:\ on my mobo primary (0) SATA3 (6GB/sec) controller and switched back on.
This is where the nighmare began.
Needless to say It wouldn't boot, no bottable media.
I put the old Crucial M4 back in (on its own) and it wouldn't boot into windows....no bootable media. (a little bit of panic set in)
little reading around and it could be that windows did a sly thing and left the important boot info on one of my other drives when I initially installed windows way back when, and when I originally cloned to the crucial (using my crucial install kit many moons ago) I got lucky and all went well ? It cloned the majority of info and was still able to read the necessary off one of the other drives in order to boot and function.......Possible??
Ok, so now I abandoned the clone and did a fresh install (yes a real PITA)
But I am left with this odd Partition ?
So my nice new Sammy 850 Pro has a C:\ volume of 119gb (the same as the old Crucial M4)
With the remainder being unallocated (357.70 GB) ?? (see pic)
What do I do to correct this ?
any help...most appreciated.
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