Cloning issues

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Trying to upgrade the C drive in my Dad's PC , naively assumed it would be 30 min job and it's typically turned into a farce.

Trying to clone his 64gb ssd to a new 240gb with easeUS and it has cloned the old 64gb partition and created another full 64gb partition on the new drive and not showing the remaining empty space so windows just sees another full drive.

How do I sort this, surely it should just be one click stuff these days?
 
I've tried both Macrium reflect and EaseUS and failed.

With Macrium it comes up with "unable to read sector correctly" or something similar, I forget because I'm back home now.

With EaseUS it just says "clone failed".

The existing drive is fine and works without fault, it's just too small hence the upgrade. I've had to leave him with the old drive in whilst I come away and try to read up on why I can't get it working.

Thought this would be a 30 min job, as per usual...
 
Sounds like the target drive has some bad sectors,do you have another drive to try?

Or how does the new drive look in the manufacturers diagnostic utility?

Or the old drive,tried using the makers diagnostic to have a look at it?
 
I had similar issues a couple of years back, simple cloning job took around 4 hours because I tried 3 different software which all had errors or wouldn't boot. In the end I realised I had a western digital hard drive install on my main computer and with that comes a free copy of Acronis True Image, Worked first time.
 
I'd send the Sunbow back and get a branded drive.

That is probably where the issue lies.

£30 can get a pretty decent used 128GB SSD on flea bay these days.
 
He wouldn't have used, he's a bit funny like that.

What I could possibly do is upgrade my 840 Evo to a 500GB and give him that.

I have a few of those Sunbow drives and haven't had any issues with them, I'm going to give it a few more tries before giving up.
 
For a straight-up clone I use Clonezilla. I've never had it fail. It's a bit of a faff because you have to create boot media and boot off that and you're back to the days of text only interface. You also have to take note of the drive names because that's all you'll have to go on when choosing source and target. My last cloning was from a 1TB WD HDD to a 1TB WD HDD of the same type, so the only difference was in one digit of the 15-digit alphanumeric drive name. Get it wrong and it will clone your blank drive onto your full drive, hard luck. But it's free and it works, every time.

For moving an OS, I use Paragon Migrate OS. If you're moving it to a drive with enough capacity to take the whole contents of the source drive (which you are, obviously), it's a straightforward cloning. You have to pay for it, but it's nicely done with a clear, easy to use interface that gives you relevant information and you can run it from within the OS installation that you're cloning. There are options for partitioning. IIRC if your source is a drive with a single partition for the whole drive the default settings will resize the partition to the full size of the target drive. There's definitely an option for it. I moved my Windows installation from a 1TB HDD with a single partition to a 500GB SSD on default settings and the partition was automatically resized to fit the target drive with a single partition.

I also have Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16, which amongst other things has a Migrate OS section that looks the same as Migrate OS. That failed to work. It also failed to clone the HDD to HDD that I then used Clonezilla for. I'm not impressed with it. Migrate OS, yes. Hard Disk Manager, no.
 
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