Windows 10: I messed up with my cloning, help?

So what I was trying to do was to clone my SSD to HHD so that I can install my new SSD. Now the HHD I cloned to was previously 1TB but not it's saying it's 120GB exactly the same as my SSD? I have no idea what's going on and it's not going going well this cloning thing. What happened to my HHD storage space and how do I clone windows correctly? I'm lost... I'm using EaseUs Todo Backup Home 13.0

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I messed up with my cloning, help?

Hi citrusflavour01
Generally when you clone a disk it will do exactly what you see, it repartitions the drive to the size of the drive you are cloning.
If there was any data on the D: drive that will be gone but you should see a unpartitioned drive in computer manager where you can create the unpartitioned into a drive.
If you clone back to the new drive it will make it a 128gig however once you have got the drive booting you should then be able to expand the drive to include the rest of the space.

To do this open file explorer, select "My Computer" and then right click and choose "Manage"




Will Open the Computer Manager




Select Disk Management and you should see something like this:




Any unassigned drive/partitions will look like this:




You can right click you new c: after cloning back and you should get this menu where you can resize your new drive to it's full size:




Hope this helps,

Dave G

PS I use Acronas which does allow to clone to and from different size drives.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

I kinda agree with you, but on a wholr, do not. While I have done things a bit differently than this specific situation, by installing Windows directly to the SSD, and cloning after, my testing shows that there are no issues doing this, very little that can go wrong, provided your system is stable.

There are certain features that must be disabled in this situation, like auto defrag and such, but even with a fresh install to the SSD, you need to take steps to ensure that you SSD performs properly, regardless of how the data got there.

Arming yourself with a bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Installing the latest chipset driver, and the RST Tools, will ensure optimal performance of the SSD. but rather than taking my advice, I suggest the OP takes a look here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...7-and-ssds-to-clone-windows-or-reinstall.aspx

Installing The SSD - Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook | Tom's Hardware

Keep in mind, also, Digibucc, that many retail drives include software and such that very specifically is to be used to ttranser the OS from an existing mechanical drive to an SSD, and if there really was alot fo issues stemming from the cloning process, they would not have packages like that, simply to eliminate tech support costs. While not the optimal option, cloning is NOT a bad thing, as long as you take the nessecary steps.

 

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