unable to roll over to a larger HD

parker41 said:

Having a problem with prt screen. Have been on this for more then 2 hrs., Have used snipping tool, Paint, googled how to but the only time it will let me paste is with my personal info. Been more then 10 years since I have used prt screen so any suggestions?

I use Snipping tool click on new and use the cross cursor to draw rectangle around the part of screen to record, right click within it, choose copy and then right click on new post to post it.

So, your Disk0 was cloned or it's image was restored to Disk1 ? Right now you are booted to Disk0. To boot from Disk1 you need to change boot order in BIOS or take out/ disconnect disk0. 232.88GB partition could be just initialized and formatted or with some complications merged with now F but if you boot from disk1 will be C: partition.

I suggest a test before anything else.

Physically remove the original OS disk and put the new one in its place. Boot up with just the new one connected.

If that test passes you can consider what else to do.
1 You can initialise, format & use that big unallocated space for your own files - user folders can be "relocated" to other drives easily and splitting your files from the OS helps in making regular system images as backups.
2 If you do "relocate" your user folders you will later decide that the OS drive is hardly getting used at all [probably less than 40GB] and want to shrink it to 80-100GB so that you can give the space over for your user files [i.e. merge it with that big unallocated space]. This is not straightforward because that Recovery partition is in the way.
It is worth thinking about these things now while you still have your original disk there to take over if any changes on the new one get messed up.

Denis

Windows calls its OS the C:\Drive. It is actually very difficult** to make it call it anything else.

The C:\ drive it is showing is the one that is connected up in the computer.
- You can see confirmation of this by looking in Device manager, Disk drives where you will find that the disk is called by its manufacturer's designation [such as ST1000LM015-2E8174].

Denis

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** The only time I have ever had it called something else was by accident and I have never understood how it happened.

Stuck with what? You seem to have achieved what you wanted and now have the chance to refine what's there.

The simplest thing to do now would be to initialise & format that unallocated space then "relocate" your user folders so they all use that instead of filling up your OS drive & making your system images so big you'll probably not make them so frequently.

Personally, I would not do this. I would find out how to make the OS drive smaller [80-100GB] so it would not have so much wasted space and so I could give the rest over to that big unallocated space that I would make it into an even bigger drive for my own files.
- The reason I cannot advise you about this is that I have never had to do it. I have always done similar tasks a different way and I do not think that you would welcome me saying that you are better off starting again.
- Perhaps somebody else will chip in with a method of both shrinking the OS drive and moving the Recovery partition so that the whole space can be given over to that unallocated space [future datafile drive].
- By the way, Disk management does its job well enough but a more capable equivalent would be MiniTool partition wizard [free]. If anybody can tell you a method for shifting stuff around from your current position then it is likely to use this tool.

Denis

try*3, You are running way beyond my

Intelligence. What happens if I reconnect the older 232 drive will it not show up identical to the current drive? So I will have two identical drives? Also how much space is left on the drive.