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Size of cloned ssd expanded after clone. Loose the purpose replacing ssd.

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Hi,

 

I have a Lenovo 300 15 ISK laptop.

 

It had a 2.5 " 128 GB SSD. I decided to replace it with a new 512 GB SSD. 

I bought a kingston upgrade kit:

from mr memory for a 512 GB SSD.

I connected the new SSD to the USB and followed the instructions ( seems I am not allowed to paste the link kingston provided).

Everything went smooth and I could remove the old internal one and install the new and the boot up windows and login.

So why am I posting here:

When I check "Storage" in windows it shows (ssd_upgrade1.png) that out of my new 512 GB

361 GB is suddenly reserved for system. I only have approx 31 GB free.

Prevoius SSD had 2 G out of 128 free. 

And a second strange thing is (ssd_upgrade2.png) that file explorer is showing a total of128 GB and 31 GB free.

Update: Found this for the new SSD:

Device SCSI\Disk&Ven_KINGSTON&Prod_SKC600512G\4&6aa59bd&0&000000 was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.
 

Update2: This is how disc looks like ( see ssd_upgrade3.png)

Not sure what it means.

I must admit and disappointed and confused. Is there a remedy for this? I am all ears!

//mike

( sorry for swedish in screenshots)

 

 

 

 

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Mike, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

The core issue here is the presence of the other partitions after the C: OS one, where Acronis has not been able to move these to the end of the new SSD drive space, hence has essentially replicated your old SSD to the new one.

To fix this issue, download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and install this, then use this tool to move the two unnamed partitions (1000 MB and 19.36 GB) to the end of the new SSD drive space.  Delete the empty 337.11 GB partition to allow this move.  Once the 2 smaller partitions are moved, then you can expand the size of the original C: partition to use all the free unallocated space on the SSD.

For reference if doing this type of clone / migration again with a laptop, please see:

KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.