How do you clone into a larger SSD without having it partitioned?
My OS is installed on a 128GB SSD and I'm planning to clone it to a 500GB SSD. My question is how do you make it clone without getting partitioned? I tried cloning it already and it shrinks my newer SSD down to 128GB too and I can't extend that partition because it says something like it will make it a dynamic partition which might ruin the OS files.


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My solution on this one is to skip the idea of doing a clone, and instead image the original drive(backup) to an external hard drive. Pull the original, insert the new drive, do a CLEAN Windows 10 or 11 install, then restore ONLY the C partition from the backup to where the new C partition is on the drive. This will do a clean EFI bootloader but using the Windows installation from the old drive.
Note that after you do this, you will need to go to Windows 10 settings, advanced, system protection, and turn on system restore. The process I have laid out here will bring across your C partition perfectly, but the partition will not have the same registry key, so system protection(for system restore) will not be turned on. You will also need to turn off system protection for the old C partition that is technically not there anymore.
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