I'm running XP and just cloned the current hard drive to a new SSD. After cloning my new SSD is exactly the same size as the drive I cloned from (80GB) - not 128GB as it should be.
I assumed there was some unallocated space so went to disk management in XP to look for the unallocated space. There is none - just a carbon copy of the current hard drive.
I then proceeded to delete all partition on the SSD to see if this would solve this issue but it didn't. I now just have 80GB of unallocated space where I should have 128GB.
Can anyone suggest a way of recovering the lost space?
Answer
You used the same partition table from the drive you were cloning, this is like an index of all available/used sectors. You need to make sure the partition table is adjusted proportionally, otherwise it will just clone the partition table with the data and the drive will still report to the OS it is physically the same size.
In clonezilla the option is -K1 (create partition table proportionally):
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