cloning help

[Evostatic343]

i cloned my hdd which is 2tb to a 4tb drive but the software i used created a 2tb partition. how can i clone my drive to the 4tb drive but keep it all in the 4tb partition?

[Superarragon]

Just expand the partition to 4TB? If there's already stuff on the 4TB drive, put it on the 2TB partition and then expand it to 4TB.

[Evostatic343]

Just expand the partition to 4TB? If there's already stuff on the 4TB drive, put it on the 2TB partition and then expand it to 4TB.

how would i expand the partition? there is nothing on the drive

[Superarragon]

how would i expand the partition? there is nothing on the drive

You should be able to use a disk manager in an OS to expand it.

[roberto++]

Cloning matches the previous partition table, changing this does not require another software to clone.

 

first make sure you are using GPT partition rather than MBR. MBR has a physical limit to 2TB per volume. Your software may have cloned your drive using MBR rather than GPT.

 

If you are using GPT partiion scheme, you can then expand the drive within disk manager. Right click My computer > manage > disk management> scroll down to your 4 TB drive, right click on 2TB partition then click extend partition.

 

To check if your drive is using GPT, use command prompt in administrator mode and type

 

diskpart

 

A new window will appear and type

List disk

then hit enter

 

as you can see from this example below both of these drives are MBR format

 

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.On computer: PCDISKPART> List Disk  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---  Disk 0    Online          111 GB  1024 KB  Disk 1    Online         1117 GB  1024 KBDISKPART> 

 

i cloned my hdd which is 2tb to a 4tb drive but the software i used created a 2tb partition. how can i clone my drive to the 4tb drive but keep it all in the 4tb partition?