Cloning 2 seperate 500GB HDD to 1TB HDD
I'm trying to clone one 500GB HDD to my 1TB HDD and once that finishes, clone the next 500GB HDD to the same 1TB HDD but after cloning the first one, my PC sees it as the 500GB HDD and not a 1TB HDD anymore.


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I'm trying to clone one 500GB HDD to my 1TB HDD and once that finishes, clone the next 500GB HDD to the same 1TB HDD but after cloning the first one, my PC sees it as the 500GB HDD and not a 1TB HDD anymore.
Darrius, there is a fundamental issue here! You cannot clone 2 different drives to the same target drive without the second clone wiping out the results of the first one!
Cloning is a 1:1 relationship, it copies the whole of the source drive to the whole of the target drive and wipes everything that is on that target drive as the initial part of the clone process.
If you need to combine these two drives on to a third single drive, then you need to use Backup & Restore instead, and partition the target drive as if it is equal to the two source drives.
See the link in my signature for a document describing the difference between using Backup and Cloning.
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