why is my 2TB SSD showing up as 1TB?

[Evatron]

hi everybody! its been a while but i rate this forum as champions of tech support.

i had a 1TB SSD as my C: drive. over time i needed more space and bought a 2TB SSD and cloned the 1TB SSD to it using macrium reflect, then swapped them out.
everything worked fine but when i went to check out the new free space i had...

i just want to replicate my C: drive onto a drive with more free space for it to use. how do i do this?

 

[Evatron]

appreciate the replies everyone! glad to know i dont have to reformat and start over.

 

[Evatron]

It's probably because you cloned the drive instead of creating an image, cloning a drive copies the content of the drive and the partition layout so 1TB drive will always be 1TB, what you want to do is create an image of the drive so your imaging software can resize the partitions to fit on the new drive.

If still have the OG drive you can simply make an image, instead of cloning it, and apply that image to the new drive. If you don't have the OG drive any more you'll need to resize the partitions, you won't be able to do this on the system drive while it's in use so you'd need to download a partition editing program (something like gparted), burn it to a USB stick, boot into it, and then resize them.

can you please explain how i apply an image to a drive? i got as far as making an image to a disc. thanks!

 

[Evatron]

Use Macrium Reflect? If so they have a knowledge base of instructions here...

Restoring a system image - Knowledgebase 8.0 - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

knowledgebase.macrium.com

Or you could probably find step by step instructions in the help for the program, I'd try to be more helpful but i don't have a copy of reflect installed ATM and by the sounds of it and how straight forward it should be I'm guessing you want/need highly detailed step by step instructions.

That is unless it's a nervous about making a mistake type of thing, because it should just be a matter of selecting the restore option/tab, selecting your 2TB drive, and then going through a file explorer type thing to select the image you saved. Maybe a prompt to resize it to fill the entire disk, then reboot with the newly imaged 2TB as the boot drive.

ah thanks man. it really is straight forward looking at that. appreciate it.

 

[Evatron]

Am I missing something or in your image it only shows a 90 GB partition? Was your system partition always this size perhaps? You may have just cloned that issue across as well. Perhaps you can share your partition layout for the whole drive?

was so long ago i honestly dont remember why this was (i didnt build it) but yes. for some reason the partition for the OS is pathetic and that is my core issue. the rest of the drive is empty bar a few program files

again, i didn't build this machine and the drive was already like this. don't ask why it's called "local program files" when almost all of the program files are on C: like normal.

 

[Evatron]

My thoughts exactly. The Windows partition needs to be expanded but the D: drive partition moved. I don't think this can be done with Windows? Does OP need something like Partition Magic?

yeah, i did. used partition magic to work it out. really shocking disk management cant do such a basic task. then again microsoft made windows 11.