Cloning Win10 keeps drive size? SysPrep Generalize not working?

[Chris Siwirski]

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone please help with a hard drive cloning issue with Windows 10?

I have built out a Windows 10 x64 Enterprise image. SysPreped with the EntendOSPartition customization under the Specialize Pass. I captured and deploy the image with Clonezilla (though I know that part does not really matter in this instance).

The problem I am having, is it keeps the hard drive size (capacity) of the original drive (which is a 256GB SSD). So if I dump the Clonezilla image to a 1TB drive, Disk Management only shows it as being a 256GB drive?!?!?! With no way to extend the partition.

I found this:
https://kb.acronis.com/content/1710
But this seems like a tedious process to replicate for every PC we image.

I can use "expert mode", and choose the "-k1" option to match destination capacity.
But I never had to do this with my Win7 images, isn't there something I can do so I don't need to pick this option everytime?

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks,
Chris

[Steven Shiau]

For Cloenzilla, actually no matter it's Win7 or Win10, if you want to expand the partition size proportionally, you have to choose "-k1". No idea why you did not have to choose "-k1" for Win7. It's weird...

Steven

[Arthur Tromp]

When this happens I just shrink the system partition a little with Disk Management under Windows. After the shrink, Windows shows the correct disk size and I can extend the partition to its maximum size.