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Hi,
So i just bought a Crucial MX300 SSD today 275GB and i plugged it in and wanted to clone my current 148GB Hard Disk after the cloning i think it resized my SSD and now the SSD is 149GB and the HD is the same 148GB

In Disk Management it says

149.05 GB NTFS
Healthy (system,Boot,Page Flie,Active,Crash Dump,Primary Partition)

And the Other half says
107.12GB
Healty (Recovery Partition)

How do i get my wasted space back???

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zyldxian, it sounds like the clone did automatic resizing and allocated far too much size to the Recovery partition.

Try going into Windows Disk Management and see if it will allow you to shrink the Recovery Partition in that way but how you proceed from there really depends on where the free space is after shrinking, as you can only resize your OS partition if you have free space to the right side of that partition.

The alternative is to use a partition tool such as Acronis Disk Director (if you have it) otherwise download one of the many free partition tools from such as Easeus Partition Master Free, Minitool Partition Wizard Free or Aomei Partition Assistant etc.   These tools can resize and move the free space around as needed.  

Please ensure that you make a backup of the SSD before making such changes 'just in case' of an unexpected errors!

Of course you could always repeat the clone from the HDD to the SSD and make sure to manually size the partitions.

Could you install the original drive and take a screenshot of disk managment and then install the cloned drive and do the same and post both here (for some additional set of eyes, to be sure).  Never heard of or seen that behavior before - just want to see if the recovery parition is indeed what got created so large, or if there is free space at the end of the disk that you can extend out in computer managment >>> disk management