I MESSED UP crucial P5 Plus 500 GB m.2 nvme cloning problems (SOLVED with step by step guide at the bottom of post)

[saifthearab]

Dear everyone,

 

so i messed up my cloning SSD m.2 as the title mentioned.

 

what I wanted to do is that clone my C drive to another disk the crucial p5 plus.

 

and so this happend in the first picture as shown this is the current state and i would like to say that i deleted the clone on the OS but not the other partition because they are locked for me to delete.

 

 

i used the cloning software O&O disk image and the software is good and did the right thing it just i am not experianced.

 

so i would like to do is add the extra space to my C drive on the extra unallocated space but somehow that not possible.

 

this is from my laptop lenovo legion y720 there is some propritary software from lenovo that i like to have it all of them in to these partition in the origial disk 1 to disk 2 but i just want to get a bigger space to my 118 GB to 463 GB as the origianl is almost full.

 

is there any way to solve this?

 

would like to hear some suggestion.

 

i have also used the the easu use parition manager but sadly they just gave me how it will look like as a prevview but no actual work to be done.

[BetteBalterZen]

If you have no important data on the drive, try this: 

Open CMD
Type "diskpart" 
In DiskPart, type "list disk"

Now type "select disk [number]" (your cloned drive)
Type "clean all" 

Now check the drive in disk management, see if you can initialize all of it again 

[saifthearab]

1 hour ago, BetteBalterZen said:

If you have no important data on the drive, try this: 

Open CMD
Type "diskpart" 
In DiskPart, type "list disk"

Now type "select disk [number]" (your cloned drive)
Type "clean all" 

Now check the drive in disk management, see if you can initialize all of it again 

okay thanks man, it now cleaning dont know how long but at least that takes care of 1 problem.

 

but what about the other free space how can i merge them togeather ? i tried cloning again to see if i can add the space to the clone but there is no option for it.

 

anything that can help?

 

 

[BetteBalterZen]

1 hour ago, saifthearab said:

okay thanks man, it now cleaning dont know how long but at least that takes care of 1 problem.

 

but what about the other free space how can i merge them togeather ? i tried cloning again to see if i can add the space to the clone but there is no option for it.

 

anything that can help?

 

 

"it now cleaning" - wasn't the clean all step sort of instant? For how long has it run? Should not take a long time. And in my experience, when the drive has been cleaned, when you look at it in Disk Management, there should be a single large space that you can initialize and give a letter. This is not how it went? 

[saifthearab]

6 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

"it now cleaning" - wasn't the clean all step sort of instant? For how long has it run? Should not take a long time. And in my experience, when the drive has been cleaned, when you look at it in Disk Management, there should be a single large space that you can initialize and give a letter. This is not how it went? 

sorry i was replying while it in progress i think it took about 15 mins to clean the disk.

 

so yeah it a large 1 space of the 465 GB but now the question is.

 

how can i get the C drive to be extended to take on the full 465GB?

 

thanks in advanced.

 

 

[BetteBalterZen]

1 minute ago, saifthearab said:

sorry i was replying while it in progress i think it took about 15 mins to clean the disk.

 

so yeah it a large 1 space of the 465 GB but now the question is.

 

how can i get the C drive to be extended to take on the full 465GB?

 

thanks in advanced.

 

 

Can you show a screenshot of the disk from Disk Management? 

[saifthearab]

1 minute ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Can you show a screenshot of the disk from Disk Management? 

as requested.

 

so i found this articale by one if the software that i was using to see if it possible and it is but i high lighted the answer but sadly it not adjacent 

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/increase-c-drive-partition.html#increase_disk_space_disk_management:~:text=√-,Increase C drive with adjacent unallocated space,√,-Extend C drive

 

so atleast now i know why i couldnt merge or increase the C drive on windows.

 

[BetteBalterZen]

Just now, saifthearab said:

as requested.

 

so i found this articale by one if the software that i was using to see if it possible and it is but i high lighted the answer but sadly it not adjacent 

 

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/increase-c-drive-partition.html#increase_disk_space_disk_management:~:text=√-,Increase C drive with adjacent unallocated space,√,-Extend C drive

 

so atleast now i know why i couldnt merge or increase the C drive on windows.

 

Copy that. Now just allocate the space and give it a letter. 

[saifthearab]

 

okay i assigned a letter and allocated it 

 

mean time i will going to the cloning software to see other option while you are typing back.

 

[saifthearab]

when using macrium it only clones 118 GB and does not give me the ability to increase the C drive.

 

when using O&O disk image 17 professional it give me 2 option attach source drive and delete target drive

 

 

image 1 attach source drive fails

 

 

image 2 the option menu which leads deletes the target drive and attach source drive

 

 

image 3 completely delete the target drive it working

 

but sadly i know the end result it still going to be 118 GB rather than making it bigger

 

image 4 and i was right while writing this it completed

 

 

 

at this point there is only 1 or 2 software that seems it capable but i do not get to see it works until i pay for it and then asking for my money back within the 30 days guarantee refund which in it self has plenty of time but still i rather not.

 

will update you when i pull the trigger or find another software that can do it for free.

 

 

 

[saifthearab]

okay i figured it out why it took like 15 mins 

 

your instruction said clean all which took time when i type just clean it was quick

[saifthearab]

I SOLVED ITTTTT HUUUURAAAAAAA

 

give me sometime to document this

 

this is without deleting the recovery 

 

here is proof

Edited September 3, 2022 by saifthearab

[saifthearab]

image 1 - ladies and gentelmen i have solved my own issue. with 2 software and they are all free.

 

 

image 2 - i formated my solved drive to repeat the problem and to document to other so they can help them selves

 

 

 

 

image 3 select your drive then right click and inizilate disk.

 

 

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note at this point you have 2 choices to download (or whatever) a clone software what i have used is :

O&O disk image 17 professioal trial 

OR

Macrium Reflect

both are fine and easy to use

what i am going to use is Macrium reflect for this Totourial

 

 

 

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dont worry that where the other software will take care of.

 

MiniTool Partition Wizard free 12.6

 

 

 

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this was painful to do step by step but i hope it helped someone in a similar situtaion like i was.

 

i would like to say i am not going to add details it painful and time consuming 

 

alhamdurilah may you benefit from this post.

 

regards,

 

saif the arab

 

 

EDIT  SORRY I FORGOT TO ADD ANOTHER STEP.

 

ON THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER PLEASE CLICK APPLY AND ACCEPT I COMPLETELY FORGOT THOUGH IT WAS DONE BUT I FORGOT TO APPLY TO ACCEPT THAT ALL 

 

 

 

Edited September 3, 2022 by saifthearab