harddrive problems upgrading external hardrive

[FuchsFuchs1]

I want to upgrade my External harddrive from 2TB to 5TB but wenn i copy it not all files get copied and wenn i clone it i only get a 2TB volume on my 5TB Harddrive.

[Needfuldoer]

If you partition and format the new drive, does it let you use all 5 TB? It's not set up as an MBR drive, is it?

 

Does your external enclosure support drives over 2 TB?

 

If you can successfully clone it, and it supports drives over 2 TB, and it uses a modern GPT partition table, you should be able to clone the drive then use a utility like GParted under Linux to expand that partition to the rest of the available space on the drive. (You could also create a second partition with the remaining space, but that's not ideal.)

[FuchsFuchs1]

1 minute ago, Needfuldoer said:

If you partition and format the new drive, does it let you use all 5 TB? It's not set up as an MBR drive, is it?

 

Does your external enclosure support drives over 2 TB?

 

If you can successfully clone it, and it supports drives over 2 TB, and it uses a modern GPT partition table, you should be able to clone the drive then use a utility like GParted under Linux to expand that partition to the rest of the available space on the drive. (You could also create a second partition with the remaining space, but that's not ideal.)

i have 2 external harddrives. one is 2TB wich is the old one and a one 5TB wich im updating. also is GParted avelible for mac os or windows?

 

[Anghammarad]

clone it and then resize the partion ... easy peasy ^^ 

 

ok the ease depends on the filesystem on the drive... 

 

 

[SimplyGone]

35 minutes ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

I want to upgrade my External harddrive from 2TB to 5TB but wenn i copy it not all files get copied and wenn i clone it i only get a 2TB volume on my 5TB Harddrive.

What OS are you using?

[Needfuldoer]

30 minutes ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

i have 2 external harddrives. one is 2TB wich is the old one and a one 5TB wich im updating. also is GParted avelible for mac os or windows?

 

No, but it's available in many Linux live boot environments, so you can create a bootable flash drive and unplug your "good" OS drive. (That way you can't possibly erase it by accident.)

 

https://gparted.org/livecd.php

 

https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

i have 2 external harddrives. one is 2TB wich is the old one and a one 5TB wich im updating. also is GParted avelible for mac os or windows?

 

On Windows you can usually expand a filesystem straight from Disk Management. If not there are tools like minitool partition editor that will do it.

[FuchsFuchs1]

1 hour ago, Anghammarad said:

clone it and then resize the partion ... easy peasy ^^ 

 

ok the ease depends on the filesystem on the drive... 

 

 

exfat doesnt allow that

[FuchsFuchs1]

1 hour ago, SimplyChunk said:

What OS are you using?

Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6)

[FuchsFuchs1]

1 hour ago, Needfuldoer said:

No, but it's available in many Linux live boot environments, so you can create a bootable flash drive and unplug your "good" OS drive. (That way you can't possibly erase it by accident.)

 

https://gparted.org/livecd.php

 

https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

mac os isnt good plus my iMac refuses to boot from non macos drives.

[kokosnh]

Try not to clone it, as it probably clones the MBR table scheme from 2TB HDD to the 5TB HDD, and it has a limit of max size partition up to around 2TB.
So just initiate the 5TB as GPT, and try to synchronize the file using freefilesync (remember to use the setting, to copy only the files from right to left in the synchronizations option).