New SSD problem

[Z.S]

I just recently got a 2TB SSD to upgrade my boot drive because my PC supports PCIe gen 4 but the boot drive was gen 3 also I wanted more storage too and the OG boot drive was a 1TB Corsair Force MP510. Now I got a Kioxia 2TB PCIe gen4 drive which is much faster. I googled how I would clone the boot drive and came across a software called Macrium Reflect to clone OS's when it was done whilst still booted in my old SSD which I still have not removed I noticed I only had around half of that 2TB drive available as free storage. I already knew a little about being able to partition and separate a drive in windows and so on and went in to disk management to check the SSD and it is getting recognised by windows perfectly fine AND I can even see that it is also claiming to be almost 2TB which is another good sign but part of the SSD is unallocated and I tried to expand the storage of the part with the OS on it but it will not work. I even tried to create a SECOND drive with that unallocated storage and it says there is not enough available space on this disk to complete this operation.

Initially I did NOT want to create a new install on the SSD because of all the files I had but I even tried a USB stick with Windows installer on it to try and do it that way but I notice even the Windows USB is recognising each of the individual partitions as being separate AND does not even let me change any of the options for that unallocated part of the drive. I want to reset the WHOLE drive and get rid of all the partitions on it and have it be recognised as a single drive which I am not sure how to do as I can't seem to find settings for it in Windows or even the USB stick installer which does have options to format drives

 

 

[Z.S]

I found out how to eventually do it using command prompt as an admin and I will just try to install windows on it and see if it works

[dimon222]

Partitioning and its repercussions to Windows recovery is big PITA. I was able to resolve all such partition problems recently with USB stick of Minitool Partition Wizard. The difference is that aside of basic cloning it can also relocate & resize partitions, readjust windows recovery partition properly, convert MBR to GPT (for bigger drives) and other perks - this way allowing to have proper space configured for everything, and while keeping all data intact fully with windows behaving as before.

https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/

I swear after 24 hours of partition dancing this tool basically was godsend for this.

[Poinkachu]

1 hour ago, Z.S said:

I just recently got a 2TB SSD to upgrade my boot drive because my PC supports PCIe gen 4 but the boot drive was gen 3 also I wanted more storage too and the OG boot drive was a 1TB Corsair Force MP510. Now I got a Kioxia 2TB PCIe gen4 drive which is much faster. I googled how I would clone the boot drive and came across a software called Macrium Reflect to clone OS's when it was done whilst still booted in my old SSD which I still have not removed I noticed I only had around half of that 2TB drive available as free storage. I already knew a little about being able to partition and separate a drive in windows and so on and went in to disk management to check the SSD and it is getting recognised by windows perfectly fine AND I can even see that it is also claiming to be almost 2TB which is another good sign but part of the SSD is unallocated and I tried to expand the storage of the part with the OS on it but it will not work. I even tried to create a SECOND drive with that unallocated storage and it says there is not enough available space on this disk to complete this operation.

Initially I did NOT want to create a new install on the SSD because of all the files I had but I even tried a USB stick with Windows installer on it to try and do it that way but I notice even the Windows USB is recognising each of the individual partitions as being separate AND does not even let me change any of the options for that unallocated part of the drive. I want to reset the WHOLE drive and get rid of all the partitions on it and have it be recognised as a single drive which I am not sure how to do as I can't seem to find settings for it in Windows or even the USB stick installer which does have options to format drives

 

 

You mean like this ? (Locations of the partitions part may differ)

 

Most likely you didn't choose to extend the clone which makes Macrium clone exactly as how much space was in your old SSD.

 

IIRC, to conjoin that unallocated part to the C: or use(as new partition), it needs to be on the rightmost side in Disk Management.

But yeah there's quite a bunch of software to help with it even if it's not on the right side.