How to make full use of a cloned drive?

[pctutor]

Client currently has a 120 gb SSD but it's getting full.
She is buying a 1 TB SSD to replace it, so I'm going to clone the smaller drive to the larger one.
I believe that's going to create a large amount of "unallocated space" on the new larger drive. To make use of that whole 1 TB, is it just a matter of going into Disk Management and extending the volume? Or might I run into anything that I can prepare for prior to cloning?

 

[Markverhyden]

Most cloning software packages have an option to "grow" the partition to the full size of the new drive. Just google <insert imaging app name> image to larger hard drive. But be careful. If it's UEFI it may not be so simple.

 

[deachus]

I use Acronis True Image and it will grow the drive.

 

[nlinecomputers]

SSD is no different then a regular drive when it comes to cloning. I'm sure that you have cloned regular HDDs from smaller to larger. Works exactly the same way. As stated UEFI can cause issues but so long as you are using a modern clone tool that will not be an issue. And those issues are the same on HDD and SDD alike.

 

[pctutor]

Using Macrium Reflect. It's Windows 7 so not UEFI.

 

[joydivision]

I use HDCLONE, it allows you to automatically make full use of the new hard drive you can tell it not to expand the partition. Is brilliant software and surprised it is not used more on here. Is very cheap too.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yup just stretch it.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

I use Paragon Disk Manager and one of the options is to use entire new hdd. But as others have said you can use just about any of the clone tools that has the ability to work with partitions or use Disk Management in Windows once you get it cloned.

 

[HFultzjr]

I use Acronis True Image and it will grow the drive.

^^^^^^^ This.

Also have used to "shrink" a larger drive to a smaller SSD.

PC Backup & Recovery True Image 2013 by Acronis. It sometimes doesn't "align " the drive optimal, so you may need to do some tweaking.

Harold

 

[Moltuae]

Using Macrium Reflect. It's Windows 7 so not UEFI.

Reflect will do it too. Just drag and drop the partitions over in the GUI and select the properties of the destination partitions to change their size.

 

[jbartlett323]

If you guys are worried about UEFI problems, then we should always be recommending extending the volume from inside windows, as this is guarenteed not to screw with UEFI. That being said, occasionally there are instances that a 3rd party tool is required, but I still think a native tool that works great should be our first stop/recommendation.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Parted magic also works. May have to disable uefi and secure boot if it's windows 8 and extend the partition in parted magic then re-enable uefi and secure boot. The OS may possibly want to run a repair or do a check disk but usually works, at least with windows 7 it did fine.