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Cloned HDD to SSD, unexpected issues?

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So, a little over a week ago, I had some power pole work done at the end of my street. Everything was shut off as usual, everything was fine. (If I lost power, my UPS units would've covered things) 2 Hours later power came back, computer was turned on and 2 hours later, it shut off without warning and a moment later, there was a great smell of fried things.

Today, things got opened up, 300 watt PSU that was put in when this rig was built in 2010 was definitely fried and the HDD (WDC WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0) looked burned, but still works. So, having planned to upgrade drives to Crucial MX500 SSDs (4TB each - 1 as boot, the other as storage while getting rid of the old HDD) Got the SSD in and cloned the old drive, but somethings are funny. Also note I'm Windows 7.

Since I cloned from the HDD to the SSD, I noticed I lost space. It reads as 1.99TB, same as the old drive. Is this because of the cloning? Am I stuck with it? Or can I get the remaining space of the drive back?

I also noticed that the second SSD that I planned to use as storage (connected but not set up yet) has vanished from the device manager. What's the deal with that?

Thanks for any help. I'm a noob when cloning and things. This is my first drive clone.

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Chris, welcome to these public User Forums.

If your PC dates back 13 years to 2010 then it predates the introduction of UEFI & GPT for drives and thus is restricted by MBR to 2TB for disk sizes regardless of using 4TB SSDs, hence why you only see 1.99TB for the SSD.

In all honesty, you may want to consider upgrading the PC to one capable of running a later OS than Windows 7 and in particular of running 64-bit and UEFI / GPT to take advantage of larger drive sizes and memory configurations.  32-bit OS can only support a max of 3GB memory whereas the limit with 64-bit is what you can afford.  I run 32GB RAM on my main laptop and run any older OS systems as either Hyper-V or VMware virtual machines from within Windows 11.

Thanks for the welcome. If I remember correctly, this rig was done in Xmas of 10. It runs W7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've learned the folly of running 32 bit Windows 7 on another 2006 era rig that will be parted out and then recycled  And over the past days, I've learned about MBR and GPT. This rig had it's HDD replaced with 2 SSDs to mostly satisfaction. (1 as Boot, listing as 1.99TB as cloned. The other as GPT and storage at like 3.6TB) The silence of everything now is almost unnerving. I love it! Power use on my UPS unit has also improved between 5 and 30 minutes. Yay.

Given I know Windows 7 is outmoded, I'm planning to have made a rig that's based around an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X or similar system. Along with Windows 11 Pro or successor versions, when circumstances permit.

The missing SSD was due to a funny SATA cable. Replaced and all is detected and purring away.

If anything, I've learned how to use Acronis now to clone a disk. Something I didn't know of before.