Why is are 'Unallocated' parts showing on my drives in diskmanagement?

Draeger

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I've just cloned my 60Gb SSD using Macrium Reflect, cloning it onto a 120Gb SSD. Everything seemed to go fine, I formatted the 120Gb SSD before starting and then ran Reflect and let it do its thing.

Everything is working as it should but if I go into diskmanagement it shows I have 351Mb 'Unallocated' on the C:/ drive which is the new 120Gb SSD that I cloned the 60Gb drive to. Why is that and can I do anything about it? Or is it not worth bothering about given its only 350Mb?

The F:/ drive you can see in the screenshot is another 60Gb SSD that I've just installed Windows 10 Home onto in order to dual boot and have a play with W10 before deciding to move up to it from Windows 8.1. I notice it also has a similar 'Unallocated' bit listed, albeit a bit smaller. The other drives are all data or archive drives.

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Hey there, Draeger.

Well when cloning a drive sometimes stuff like this happens. Although I really don't know why this would happen to the other drive if you've selected the whole available storage capacity of the SSD when you've formatted it during the installation process.
You shouldn't be able to extend the C: drive or the F: drive via Disk Management, as you'd have to have the unallocated space on the right side of the partition you want to extend, right next to it, for this to happen. On the other hand, you can do that by using 3rd party partition management software. However, you should definitely backup any important data which you might have on those drives before you try that. In my opinion it's really not worth to take the chance of messing things up because of 452MB, but at the end of the day - the choice is all yours.

Cheers!
Boogieman_WD
 
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There is normally always a hidden partition created when installing windows for recovery. Seems like yours have become unallocated space. It's nothing to worry about though as if windows isn't bootable you can boot off the install drive.

3rd party tool will allow you to get that space back. I used Minitool partition wizard in the past and it worked perfectly.
 
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