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I cloned Windows to a larger SSD and computer won't show additional storage, no unallocated partition

I wanted to upgrade my laptop with a double sized SSD so I have cloned Windows from the old one to the new one. From about 223GB (officially I think 250) to 500GB. I followed and online tutorial on ...
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How to clone old small SSD into new larger replacement SSD in a laptop

I have a Thinkpad with a 500GB SSD, and it's split into a dual-boot of a 100GB Windows 10 partition and a 400GB Ubuntu partition. (Note: I'm comfortable nuking the 100GB Windows partition because ...
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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?

So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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Weird partitions after cloning my disk to SSD

To start, I have three partitions on my disk, don't aske me why, I took this HDD years ago from my older PC then upgraded the O.S. twice, one from XP to W7 then from W7 to W10 and I'm so much grate ...
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Dualboot Windows can't boot after cloning partitions to new SSD

I have a dual-boot system with Kubuntu 16.04 and windows 7, both systems spread over multiple partitions, when I added a new SSD to the system. The plan was to copy the windows system-partition, the ...
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Cloning from a bigger hard drive to a smaller SSD with Macrium Reflect

I am working an HP computer with Win 10 x64 Premium with all the latest updates and Macrium Reflect 7.1.3317 Free Edition. I would like to clone my C drive, the only internal hard drive, to a small ...
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Cloned a 120GB SSD to a 256GB SSD. 256GB SSD only showing capacity of 120GB

I got a 256GB SSD and wanted to clone my original 120GB SSD to the new one. I used a software that, I assume, works at the bit-level. Now the new 256GB SSD is showing a capacity of 120GB in Windows, ...
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Keeping cloned partition as bootable backup

I'll try to keep it short, I want to clone my current Windows 7 Install from an HDD [80GB System (C:) and 1,7TB Data (D:)] to an SSD. The last SSD I installed unfortunately broke after only a few ...
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Issue cloning SSD to larger SSD

I have recently purchased a new SSD which I am trying to set as my primary drive for my OS. Currently my original drive (C:/) is also an SSD however space is becoming an issue (its only 60GB) while ...
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Partitioning issue after HDD to SSD sector copy and swap in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Recently decided to replace my nearly full 500GB hard disk drive with a 1TB SSD to breathe some new life into my mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I used a “toaster”-style drive cloner (Dyconn Dubbler) to do a ...
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Use Macrium Reflect to Clone an SSD with three partitions to a larger SSD, expanding the middle partition

I'm trying to use Macrium Reflect Free to clone a disk from a 75 GB SSD to 225 GB SSD. The source has three partitions, and I want to clone them all, but I want the first and third to be the same size,...
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