Can't Extend Partition After Cloning?

[Mark Kaine]

So I cloned my 1TB laptop drive to my new 2TB drive and thought I can just extend the Volume, but apparently that's not an option? 

 

I have now formatted the Volume thinking maybe I could do it then, however, nope, it's just a regular drive now, which I don't want, I want 1 big drive instead of two smaller ones. 

 

Anything im missing here, or should I use some software to merge the two drives? 

 

 

(partition in question: New Volume E: and neither volumes have extend, only shrink... ) 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

So I cloned my 1TB laptop drive to my new 2TB drive and thought I can just extend the Volume, but apparently that's not an option? 

 

I have now formatted the Volume thinking maybe I could do it then, however, nope, it's just a regular drive now, which I don't want, I want 1 big drive instead of two smaller ones. 

 

Anything im missing here, or should I use some software to merge the two drives? 

 

 

(partition in question: New Volume E: and neither volumes have extend, only shrink... ) 

Basically during the cloning process you should've been given an option to expand the partition. So you'll most likely have to redo the cloning process again. As it stands, because you have the OEM partition in the way, you cannot expand it; at least through normal means. 

[Mark Kaine]

9 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Basically during the cloning process you should've been given an option to expand the partition. So you'll most likely have to redo the cloning process again. As it stands, because you have the OEM partition in the way, you cannot expand it; at least through normal means. 

Ya, but there wasn't an option for that, unless I've missed it... thing is I did this before, several times (although on my gaming PC, never on this laptop) and there always was an extend or expand (?) option in disk management... I don't really understand what these OEM partitions are... I installed this version of windows myself, from a regular USB drive and I deleted any and all 'hidden' partitions... seems almost like they came back after cloning?  (no idea just speculating)

 

So what would be a way to do this? i read some programs can do that but I'd need to know which, not that it gets messed up even more...