Disk to Disk cloning and missing hard drive space (humor me)
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Hello.
I have been using clonezilla for quite a few years. I use it all the time for backups both personal and for my work. I just recently bought a new m.2 WD black 250GB drive off Newegg. My current drive is an Adata 240GB drive. So a difference of 10GB. I got this drive because of the performance boost. Here is my issue. I wanted to do a disk to disk clone. I used the default settings (probably where my issue lies). I did this successfully thinking that the difference in 10GB of space would easily be rectified by using either windows partition manager or partition magic to recover the missing space. The missing space is not there. I am showing 223GB which is the same as my other drive that is the 240. I should be seeing around 230GB. I know it is miniscule but I want to get this figured out. The missing space does not show up as missing or unallocated in any partition manager that I have tried. Does anyone know of a way to get this missing space back? I wonder if just reformatting and starting over would work but I don' think it will be that easy. If it isn't even showing up as unallocated space in windows partition manager how will it know to format it or, how would any other boot type partition manager find it? Im wondering if doing the disk to disk clone beginner mode screwed the drive up and the missing space is just gone forever. Maybe someone can help me out on here. And please no trolling. I just want to get this figured out. Thanks in advance for anyone that can shed some light on this.
PS. If anyone knows of a way to get the missing space back without having to completely start over it would also be greatly appreciated. However, my suspicions are I will have to make an image and fix the drive (hopefully) and start over.
Last edit: Kyle Tyndall 2018-07-12
This sometimes happens. Solution is to go to Disk Management in Windows and shrink the system partition a little (with for example 1 GB). After the shrink Disk Management should show the right disk size. Than expand the partition to the maximum size or the size you want.
I will remember this for next time if this happens. What I ended up doing (before I saw your post) was trying gparted in a pre-boot environment and it actually saw and formatted the missing space. I then merged the two partitions together to get all of the storage. Thanks for your tip though. I will definitly keep that in mind for the futre. I am sure I am bound to see that issue again if I do another disk to disk copy.