Hello -
I bought a 2 TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 SSD for an upgrade.
The existing SSD was an Intel 256GB.
Used a bootable USB drive and Clonezilla to copy a disk image to an external USB HDD.
Replaced the existing 256GB SSD with the new 2 TB Samsung. (still have the original SSD intact if needed)
Again booted to USB and used Clonezilla to copy the image back over to the new Samsung SSD - using the defaults in Clonezilla - Beginner mode.
This worked and I have unallocated space showing up using Windows Disk Management. But I can't create a Simple Volume to use the new unallocated space. I get an error message:
"There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation."
Rescanning, picking different options - can't find anything that fixes this.
I've attached a screenshot from Disk Management and Running Diskpart and analysis looks like this:
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.964
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: LAPTOP-1JA0GLA0
DISKPART> sel disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list part
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 98 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Dynamic Reserved 1024 KB 99 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 15 MB 100 MB
Partition 4 Dynamic Data 237 GB 115 MB
Partition 5 Dynamic Data 1024 B 237 GB
Partition 6 Recovery 1022 MB 237 GB
DISKPART> sel part 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 1
Type : c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0X8000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 1048576
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 1 ESP FAT32 Partition 98 MB Healthy System
DISKPART> sel part 2
Partition 2 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 2
Type : 5808c8aa-7e8f-42e0-85d2-e1e90434cfb3
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 103809024
There is no volume associated with this partition.
DISKPART> sel part 3
Partition 3 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 3
Type : e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0X8000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 104857600
There is no volume associated with this partition.
DISKPART> sel part 4
Partition 4 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 4
Type : af9b60a0-1431-4f62-bc68-3311714a69ad
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 120586240
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 0 C Acer NTFS Simple 237 GB Healthy Boot
DISKPART> sel part 5
Partition 5 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 5
Type : af9b60a0-1431-4f62-bc68-3311714a69ad
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 254983269376
There is no volume associated with this partition.
DISKPART> sel part 6
Partition 6 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> detail part
Partition 6
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden : Yes
Required: Yes
Attrib : 0X8000000000000001
Offset in Bytes: 254983270400
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 2 Recovery NTFS Partition 1022 MB Healthy Hidden
DISKPART>
Finally, Questions:
Are all these partitions needed? Looks like some of them aren't being used.
Anyone have advice on making a new image and copying it back - maybe using a different free cloning utility that will allocate and size partitions on the fly?
Or maybe I need to image again, blow the partitions out, manually create partitions first, and then copy the image back over choosing some specific options?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
