Windows 10 Installation From SSD 128 GB >> SSD 1 TB

Be4stElectrjc · 10 Dec 2016

Possible? Same PC of course... Thanks.

Cliff S · 10 Dec 2016

Be4stElectrjc said:

Possible? Same PC of course... Thanks.

If you are just going from a smaller SSD to a larger, just create a system image, then reimage to the new disk.
You will be able to boot into Windows.
Then on the new disk, open Disk Management, and either extend the C partition, or do that and create any number of partitions you wish.

swarfega · 10 Dec 2016

Is this drive an OS drive? If so 1tb is a unnecessarily large for primary boot drive.

NavyLCDR · 10 Dec 2016

Cliff S said:

If you are just going from a smaller SSD to a larger, just create a system image, then reimage to the new disk.
You will be able to boot into Windows.
Then on the new disk, open Disk Management, and either extend the C partition, or do that and create any number of partitions you wish.

There might be a problem with that if the recovery partition (or any other partition) is directly after the operating system (boot) partition. Windows disk management by itself will not allow any partition to be expanded if there is no free space directly to the right of the partition to expand it into. A program like MiniTool Partition Wizard is required to move and expand the various partitions.

Cliff S · 10 Dec 2016

Can reimage these three first

Windows 10 Installation From SSD 128 GB >> SSD 1 TB-image.png

extend C

then reimage the recovery after to the remaining unallocated space

NavyLCDR · 10 Dec 2016

Cliff S said:

Can reimage these three first

extend C

then reimage the recovery after to the remaining unallocated space

What if the user does not have a storage location to hold the image file?

Cliff S · 10 Dec 2016

NavyLCDR said:

What if the user does not have a storage location to hold the image file?

We need to wait until they show up again then

Be4stElectrjc · 10 Dec 2016

It is a OS drive, always used MiniTool Partition Wizard for partitions. Have Recovery, System EFI and Boot, Paging, Details about unexpected crashes, Primary. I will use system image and expand primary partiton on new one like you said, thanks.

freemannnn · 10 Dec 2016

NavyLCDR said:

What if the user does not have a storage location to hold the image file?

he can clone from one disk to another. no need for extra disk to image!