How To Expand A Hard Drive Partition After Cloning (Windows Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2019
- UPDATE: So it's been pointed out to me that the EaseUS software I demonstrated in this video actually WILL NOT let you expand a partition for free if there's another one in between the partition you want to expand and the free space. One program called AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard has been mentioned by a number of you guys as one that lets you do this. I tested it out myself and it does work! You're able to expand a partition for completely free even if there's the free space is not directly to the right of the partition. You can download it here: www.disk-partition.com/downlo.... Hope this helps and sorry for the confusion!
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UPDATE: So it's been pointed out to me that the EaseUS software I demonstrated in this video actually WILL NOT let you expand a partition for free if there's another one in between the partition you want to expand and the free space. One program called AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard has been mentioned by a number of you guys as one that lets you do this. I tested it out myself and it does work! You're able to expand a partition for completely free even if there's the free space is not directly to the right of the partition. You can download it here: www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html. Hope this helps and sorry for the confusion!
THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE! Conveniently for me I just ran into this issue today and I'm glad I checked the comments! I now have a fully functioning 2TB hard drive!
Awesome! Glad you got it working
@@MichaelMJD Unfortunately, AOMEI requires purchase now before it will apply the partition merge.
Thanks for the update it's been ass waiting to get the drives done and learning the easus was gonna fuck was a let down. edit anomi are cucks
@@pennymachines2385 it works now
I tried the AOMEI program. It was simple and fast. Worked beautifully for a retired truck driver.
WORKS!!! did it today
You can no longer do this with the free version it asks to activate to complete task
Well all you guys used it as of Oct 5 2021, and they said hey stop giving this away for free, charge 44 bucks. So they have.
Thank you for this video. I was a big help to me as I was trying to clone an existing SSD to a larger SSD. I ran into some issues with the WB Acronis software (it duplicated the size of the partition on the older, smaller SSD, so I couldn't see the extra space on the larger SSD in explorer). This video helped me fix it. Thank you!
You’re welcome! Glad it helped you
1st method worked (thank goodness), a simple task that I can just google but I don't mind watching this, makes it easier to understand with your explanation, thanks, man
You’re welcome! Glad the video helped
I have been looking for the right video to extend my hd space and this was all it took! Disk Management...... wow!
As you stated in the comments, EaseUS is not free for this feature. I used MiniTool, which is free and it worked exactly the same way. Click on the drive, drag the BIOS partition to the end, slide the main partition over to the unallocated space, click go, takes 2 minutes. Thanks for the tutorial :) Got a new 2T EVO 860 integrated into the laptop with no issues.
My C drive was 240 GB, I cloned it over to a 1 TB ssd, the first part of this video gave me the rest of my unallocated space. Thank you!
Freecons Gaming saaaaammmmme ma dude or gal 😝
I just cloned a hard drive and it gave me multiple partitions so plan A didn't work. I downloaded the free version of that disk-partition program you mentioned in the description. It doesn't work the same as the program in this video (of course). In this program you "Merge Partitions" and select them. Worked great for me. Thanks for the video.
The Disk Management and the other software you suggested do not work. BOTH seem to want the unallocated space to be next to the main partition.
To those who may be facing the same issue. In my case, using the merging partitions feature worked. You should delete the partitions and make the extra space unallocated though.
Thank You! It worked like a charm! You are a great instructor!
super simple, just used easeus to clone, and this video to expand the partition. Appreciate it!
Glad to hear it!
Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for the video and tutorial ..... appreciate it!
I figurad it out. I went into the command prompt and did it in administration level and by putting the partition online and got it to work. You was still a great help and I like the software too so purchased it. Thanks bro.
wow i had this issue tried your advice and worked thank you so much !!
Again, you sir, are THE MAN! Thanks brother!
Oh thank you so much!😊 I have spent the hole day trying to get it fixed. Thanx so much you saved me so much time
Worked perfectly, thanks!
Thank you very much your update worked for me easy! Cheers
Hi Michael,
The first method worked perfect for me. Thank you :)
I accidentally stumbled onto your RUclips video Saturday May, 30 2020. Thank you for your tutorial, it is very informative, concise and easily understood. Normally I used PartedMagic for this but found it didn't work with Win 10 for extending to larger drives. While Trying to extend a drive after Cloning using PartedMagic, Win 10 Disk Management the same problems occurred. Your fix it, made me feel like a kid in a candy store and for an old man having to deal with the Corona virus Pandemic, it really got my hopes up. I will try it first on an older 1TB WD Black drive if it works I'll use a Terabyte SSD. P.S. I subscribed to your RUclips channel and marked the bell to get all your latest Videos and go over other videos on your channel.
That's so great to hear! Glad the video helped. And thanks for subscribing : )
Great it work for me, just had to watch the first four minutes, Thx
Great Video, very pleasant voice and speed! Also, no nonsense jabber all around the important stuff
Worked like a charm. Thank you I learned something new today.
Awesome to hear this video helped! Thanks for watching
thanks a lot ! the first variant works for me
Thank you. This worked out perfect.
This was exactly what I needed. Thanks for the video. Now my 1TB is showing instead of the 100GB I had.
Legend. Thanks so much for this.
Depends what tool you use. I use some ancient version of Ghost, and it asks if I want to use the whole larger drive.
What I'd like to see is best way to clone from spinning rust to SSD and make sure it winds up correctly aligned.
Your awesome bro. Anything on how to reprogram a macbook pro. Installed new hard drive but stumped on a reinstall of OS X. Dont have access to another mac
You saved my day, thanks sooo much!
Thank you for this 👍
Thank you! the link in the comments worked for me.
I used minitool partition wizard myself for this and it worked great!
If you type computer management in search next to Start button, in the CM app you go to Disk Management, right click the drive you want to change oartions and boom. No software needed
@@bellmeisterful doesn't work for everyone dumbass
@@bluemanredmanwhiteman782 I thought I told you to stop being so much of a dipshit?
The software he used only works in Windows 10 and below.
Dumdum.
So it would work for him
Not sure if i can do this, as i just cloned my os drive to my new 500gb ssd and supposedly its a bootable drive now, but only with 102gb usable out of the default 128gb. when i try to expand from basic>dynamic it tells me that it wont be bootable drive anymore! please help!
making my new ssd drive a bootable os drive with the 500gb is the whole reason im doing this!
Thank you very much! Very Helpful!
thanks bud 1st method worked a treat
Needed the second option and had EaseUs to change my drive to GPT for Win11 upgrade. Needed a new drive and it cloned it to the original 55GB, new drive was 120GB. Worked like a charm. Thank you so much!
in order to increase the drive size you need to purchase the sofware
@@redron357 correct. I had already purchased it prior to this.
As of 10/10/2020 the free version of AOMEI worked to increase the size of C: from unallocated space even though they were not next to each other. I cloned a 256GB to a 1TB with macrium reflect and had the problem of the 1 TB drive seeming to be a 256. I used the combine function.
thank you!
When I cloned my c drive to a new 1tb ssd it created 2 different drive allocations in my file explorer any fixes? One named recovery (E:) and another named Local Disk (F:)
Michael MJD, man THANK YOU sooo much for this video. I have a 1TB SSD which I bought for my old computer to use it as a primary SSD and of course I installed Windows on it and I devided its 1TB into 4 Drives C, D, E and F and used it for a few months before my computer totally crashed beacuse it was 12 years old already. But of course my SSD was still brand new so I couldn't throw it in the garbage and I decided to leave it and use it as an external Drive for my new laptop. So I saw a video how to merge drives and merged the 4 drives just to find out that I have only 300GB of its total capacity of 1TB.
So your video now just helped me fix my SSD space volume to its normal.
Thank you man, stay healthy !!! :)
Worked great thanks man!
If you have your main drive partitioned, can you still clone it to a smaller drive as long as it's larger than the partition that your cloning? (repeat question from last video if you only check newer videos for comments.) Thanks
Thanks for all the good info and links, Michael. I cloned my HDD 500GB to a 1TB SSB and had the exact problem you've described. I was only using half of the 1TB capacity. I tried the EaseUs and it didn't work, so I downloaded AOMEI and it worked like a champ...and for FREE. This is on my desk top. I've cloned my wife's Toshiba Satellite, but haven't installed the drive yet. I can't tell if the SSD clone is exactly the same as the Toshiba HDD. Only one way to find out and that's to crack the case open and install it.
I am assure you it does not work for free now
Tutorial on how to do the same thing with aomei? I have no Idea how to do the same thing with this.
can you take a look at the unofficial windows version called Shorthorn ?
I need to expand two partitions. One for OS X and the other a windows. I'm not sure if I should do it through OS X or windows. How did that program deal with the theoretical "middle" partition? Does it leave it intact and just fill out remaining empty space?
Thanks - worked for me :)
this video just saved me a world of headaches. Thanks dude
Worked great! Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thank you it works you saved my cpu
I had this problem in Linux. I had a Xubuntu 20.04 installation running on a 32GB SanDisk Ultra memory stick. I needed more capacity, so I cloned it onto an external Manx Data 256GB SSD, using the Linux dd command. When I tried expanding this image with GParted, the usual Linux Partition Manager, or Disk Management program, it wouldn't recognise the file-type of the cloned image, in this case ext4. I took note of your comment about rebooting the host system, Lubuntu 20.04, and opened up GParted again. This time the image was identified as an ext4 filesystem and I was able to expand it in the usual way. That small comment of yours solved my problem.
Maybe free version used to work but it is asking for activation code now. It asks for email address when downloading the software but I did not receive any email so Im not sure where to get the activation code for free use.
@michael mjd how do you expand the 2gb partition from dos to the 32gb size? When upgrading through the versions of Windows. Before installing 95 without loss
Awesome! That worked great! Thanks!
Glad it worked for you!
couple of questions. first - I want to clone a 500gb to a1 TB. I did clone it successfully but it did as you said - the new 1 TB drive came up as 2 partitions. do I use the 'move partition on the newly cloned 1 TB drive?
my original 500gb drive has a system reserved at the beginning of 100MB then it shows the balance of "C" in the second part
I have so little space in my 'system reserved' I can't even run a backup. for some reason by C drive comes up this way.
1st line C; - simple - basic NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition 447.03 GB ca[acotu Free s[ace 149.31 33% free
2nd and 3rd lines are just data drives.
4th shows the System Reserved - Simple - Basic - NTFS (status)= System, Active, Primary Partition) (capacity) = 100 MB - (Free space = 2MB, )2% free.
not sure why the C drive and the System Reserved are swapped. I don't recall them being in that order before. to get to computer management - I hit start - went to Computer - then right clicked on manage. that should have taken me to the same place you indicated? I'm using Win 7 pro
thank you
I am using Macrium Reflect and cannot get rid of the extra blocks...also confused about which partitions to expand. If I click maximum it turns the grey piece into something that says "unformatted" so not sure what that means. Any help is appreciated:)
the drive has no extra space shown. It has no gray area so I can't increase it from 931gigs to the full 2tb.
good video and very informative
THANK YOU
What if you have in between the C drive and the unallocated space a recovery partition? It doesnt allow me to resize it from easeUs partition :(
What if the SSD I cloned has multiple partitions? I don't know why it has more than one but there's a 100
MB NTFS D: drive, 111.18 GB NTFS C: drive, and a 520 MB Recovery drive. It isn't letting me expand to fit the rest of the 352.97 Unallocated part of the SSD.
Thank you so much!!!
SOLVED: In order to complete the instructions that were given in the video with the AMOEI Assistant, you would need to install the free version. When it has installed and loaded up, right-click on the unallocated partition you would like to combine with your current drive, it will be marked as "*:" and select the option "merge partitions". Make sure your C drive and the unallocated partition are both selected after you click merge partitions, and proceed with the steps. After you click merge, it will be quite straightforward, you would first need to click Apply in the top left-hand corner of the application to execute the process. NOTE: when you continue a bit further on it will ask whether you would like to proceed with WINDOWS PE MODE or PRE OS MODE, click on the Windows PE option and continue (it may be preselected already). The process might reboot your system in order to process the merge so no need to stress about that. Let the process take its course.
I hope this helps.
I used this when I created a system image of my 128gb SSD and cloned it to my new 1TB SSD. I had the issue of unallocated space not being able to be managed via disk manager: the extend function was greyed out for me and the free version of EaseUS couldn't solve it.
You’re a GOD... thank you. This fixed my issue perfectly!
@@7Bytez no please don’t say. I’m just a regular guy who commented a tip
Not any more
Bailed me out thanks!!!
What if my extra missing storage shows in disk management but not as unallocated partition and still doesn't show in windows?
Do i delete that partition?
Sheinking windows partition doesn't help, wont make the rest of the storage appear just creates a now unallocated few GB partition.
Thank you so much and also letting us know that AOMEI program is free to use.
I cloned my 2 tb onto 4tb and pc says it's 2tb , when i click on the blue bit i'm only getting shrink volume .
Same thing I'm getting. not sure what to do.
You're amazing. Thank you.
Is it ok to use another program to do the same process like the minitool partition wizard or won't it work
Thank you, you saved me from wasting so much money
is there a way to: I am just do not understand very well,
my hard disk looks like is dying is a 6TB disk, can I buy a 4TB SSD and move my OS with the programs on it? I see that it takes like 1.50 TB of space since I move my
Folders: Download folder, pictures folder, music folder, documents folder, to a new hard disk so my data is in another disk.
Have an old dell xps 8700 2 hard disk one for windows OS and now the other one I move all those folders. so can I do that?
I keep reading that had to be both the same size.
thanks
thankyou so much
The easeus will not increase your partition size for free "This feature is not available in the free edition"
Exactly....
1000 Celsius worked for me
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition (free) worked for me.
On free edition: You need to first move the "blocking partition" to the end with Resize/Move and then when the unallocated space is next to the C drive, you can Resize it. Be sure to give the "blocking partition", which in my case was a Recovery Partition, the same amount of space as before moving.
For EVERYONE having the same problem as me and trying 1000x stuff just install THIS Mini tool Partition Wizard !!! Like for real my Button was gray and I couldn't do anything else, tried EaseUs without success. Then Tried this little program... Omg... Just like 5 clicks and that Headache was Finally Gone ! No need to Boot, Restart, Cmd or whatever!!! Like magic. Good Luck
Thank you
Although it says free version on the screen, when you go to Execute it brings you to the PAY screen. You can resize other partitions if its not the C drive partition though for some reason.
I did clone my HD but I lost all my install disks for computer and hardware. Is there a way to just copy the hardware (ex. soundcards) and drivers. Some of my stuff is too old to get new drivers for Windows 7. If not cloning my HD was my hope. Thanks for any help.
Now it's asking to upgrade in order to do this, it isn't free anymore. Do you know of any other programs that can do this?
cloned a new ssd but there is 227gb unallocated space...tried to do what the video suggested but the option to expand is shaded out so i cant click it....idk what to do about it
Hello Michael. I have an HP system (about 3 years old) and am trying to replace the existing 250 GB C: drive SSD with a 1 TB SSD. the original drive has a 250 MB EFI System Partition, the C: drive partition, and finally a 980MB Windows RE Tools OEM partition. The cloned drive ends up with 693 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive.
Just for grins, I attempted to extend the new (Windows (B:)) partition using the Disk Management tool from Windows 10 because it appeared that it might just work. It appeared to work, however, I got a message at the end of the expand operation stating the following:
"The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). If you convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?"
Can you explain this to me? Would it be a wise move? Would it make it impossible to start the RE Tools? Any other ramifications?
Thanks in advance...
Dennis
Does this work with sd cards in exfat format?
thank you very much man
i tried this however i wasn't allowed to drag past the allocated memory part using the EaseUS software, can anyone help? :(
adkgj1098 did you ever find the problem
But what happens to your recovery partition usually the systems sing the logical letter D?
After cloning a 1TB HDD from an existing Xbox One S with games to a new 2TB SSD, I tried the AOMEI application to merge the available ~980GB to the existing ~780GB partition.
Each time i attempt this, the application crashes.
If I then want to allocate the available capacity, i'm prompted for to pay up for the Pro Ed.
For something that i'm likely only ever going to do once, seems to be a waste to splash the cash.
Anyone else got any ideas how i can allocate the available space of the 2TB to increase the capacity for more games?
thank you so much
I’ve used that easeUS partition software a ton back when I would multi boot. It’s such a life saver.
DAMN!!THANK YOU!!!
nice video saved me some time setting up 8 computers not doing it manually.
I got another question.
Lets say you have an existing 2TB SSD with 1TB occupied partition and the other 1TB partition empty. Is it possible to clone a HDD 1TB partition (with bootable windows) into the empty 1TB SSD partition? Or must the entire SSD you are cloning into be empty? Thanks~
Yes as long as you specify the correct partition that should work!
I tried to extend the drive but after doing that and trying to boot the new drive it bluescreens with a UNACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE error
Nothing has worked , i have 3 blue ( system reserved 500mb ntfs , C 1862.05 GB ntfs , 488 mb health recovery partition , 2 Black ones are 148.99 GB unallocated , 1678.02 GB unallocated ) I cloned a 2TB drive onto a 4TB but my pc is showing 2TB when it should be showing 4TB and i've tried everything you suggested and nothing is working i cant change size of partition . Please help .
Thankyou!
Doesn't work. Cloned a 250g ssd to a intel 1TB ssd, both show the same 200+ gb from the source 250 drive. I've tried using macrium reflect to no avail, the intel migration software to no avail and now THIS easeus to no avail. HELP! It shows the right size in Disk mgmt but I can NOT get it to show the right size on the MyPC/File explorer no matter what I do. From left to right, the partitions are
System Reserved, E: drive, and then lastly the 730gb partition that is not marked unallocated. It's just there but refuses to show the full size of the drive. I cannot figure it out...
my problem is that there are two unalocated spaces right next to each other and no program I use can expand it into the second unallocated space.
not working.. I only have a 900mb recovery partition between my C and the unallocated can I just delete the recovery partition?
What if no “unallocated” space appears ?
Not sure if that's the case for others, but for me that happened because my hard drive was over 2tb big and got converted from GPT to MBR during cloning process, which only allows up to 2tb partitions (just answering for others looking this up, it's probably too late for you lol)
Is there any other program
Hey just wanted to ask when i go on disk management it shows me 513mb of healthy (recovery partition) and 100mb of healthy (EFI System Partition) on top of the regular partition (the NTFS one) and the unallocated one. But you don’t seam to have the recovery and the efi system ones, why is mine different and can i get rid of them or should I keep them?
Until the author shows up to give you his answer the Short Answer is "No" do not delete those partitions.