Clone missing unallocated space
Hi,
Could someone explain what's going on here?
Disk1 is a small 250GB SSD
Why is unallocated after so small? Using 'As is' method
- I also tried manual as the move method which seemed to limit the part to 2TB and doesn't show any unallocated space.
I'm kinda scared to proceed that I might have my drive shrunk??


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Ah I see! Thanks!
Interesting and very helpful.
As per your question disk 1 is 250gb. Disk 2 7tb. I'll just do a clean install the above seems like fath and band aids.
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Colin, if you are intending to boot this PC from the new 7TB drive, then you definitely need to booting the PC in UEFI mode with the drive using GPT partition scheme format or else you will not be able to use more than 2TB of the new drive.
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Yes that's right, it's already gpt so a fresh install direct to the drive should leave it setup 'proper' rather than cloning.
Incidentally I'm curious about the quoted text at the bottom...is that instruction just to save people having to mess with the boot order in bios, why would it be unbootable?
This has mostly come about as my win 7 won't upgrade because there is no sys reserve partition - I assume because it was cloned from another disk when I bought the ssd using the samsung clone tool. So I was going to clone my os(D1) to the 7tb(D2) and not have it as the primary boot drive (just as a backup OS incase I have driver issues I could hop back into 7 by swapping the boot order to maintain functionality until win10 issues are resolved.) So I would do a upgrade on D1. But.... the clone is a lot of messing due to the mrt/gpt situation. So instead I'll install to D2 from scratch as gpt, and once all is good clone that to d1.
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Colin, dealing with your questions in order as far as possible.
The information about the clone resulting in a MBR drive should also be accompanied by another warning to say that the MBR disk would not be bootable. This is because migrating from GPT to MBR is rarely successful. The opposite migration of MBR to GPT is fine though!
One reason why your Win 7 upgrade not having a System Reserved (or MSR) partition is because that partition may be found on a second internal drive (if that second drive is shown as being Disk 0 in the hierarchy of drives).
When doing a clean install to the 7TB drive, I would recommend removing or disconnecting any other internal drives so that the EFI System Partition (equivalent to the MSR on MBR drives) is created correctly on that GPT drive (or ensure the 7TB drive is shown as Disk 0 by moving it or the connection to it).
If your smaller 250GB drive has a working copy of Windows 7 installed, then you could try putting this back as a secondary drive and see if this will still boot correctly if set as the boot drive in the BIOS to use as a fallback if needed in future. You could test this by having only that drive installed initially. Windows Disk Management should show if the MSR is on another drive.
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Thank you, really great information and super fast response.
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