Lost hard drive space after clone

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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Supercereal

Posted 2013-03-05T19:12:04.737

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Thanks. Do I need to recover the space somehow before I attempt the clone again? Or will using the k1 option in Clonzilla be enough to recover the space? – garethdn – 2013-03-05T19:46:59.177

@garethdn - Use your tool of choice to wipe the parition information from the drive. I would then use Clonezilla use the options that Kyle pointed out. – Ramhound – 2013-03-05T19:57:32.633

1@garethdn using the K1 option when you clone again will make it sees all the space, it will wipe the existing table when cloning with that option. If you're feeling adventurous (and don't care about the data) you can do it manually via the Gparted utility in clonezilla. I would not suggest doing this unless you have experience with Gparted or just want to learn (that's why I tried it). – Supercereal – 2013-03-05T20:11:08.443

I tried to use Clonezilla but got various errors relating to the 'Clonzilla image'. Is there any way for me to easily change the partition table after the cloning process? – garethdn – 2013-03-05T22:51:29.470

@garethdn not that I am aware of. Clonezilla has always been my goto program for any cloning job from older arrays to simple PC re imaging. Maybe your clonezilla error would make another good question? – Supercereal – 2013-03-05T22:54:28.333

@Kyle Maybe it would. Aside from ClonZilla do you know of any way to wipe the partition table, assuming I'm not concerned with the data that's on it. – garethdn – 2013-03-05T23:05:09.880

Follow up question here..http://superuser.com/questions/561412/clonezilla-errors-when-attempting-to-clone-and-create-partition-table-proportion

– garethdn – 2013-03-06T00:06:43.947

I've just been thinking...could the fact the source drive already has 4 partitions be the reason why it can't create a 5th partition of unallocated space? – garethdn – 2013-03-06T22:08:03.953

Unallocated space doesn't count as a partition. However, I can say that I have never cloned a drive with that many partition, so that may have something to with why Clonezilla is failing. – Supercereal – 2013-03-06T23:35:55.173

1Please post a screenshot of the disk within the disk mangement. Because if the unallocate space were there it would be displayed and you could simply extend the partition. – Ramhound – 2013-03-05T19:17:52.863

@Ramhound Hi, please see the edited post. It's Disk 1 - that was the screenshot before i deleted the partitions – garethdn – 2013-03-05T19:23:30.550

You are 100% sure of the size of the SSD device in question? Because based on the information you provided the size of the SSD is 80GB not 128GB. Post the information contained on the label on the device this will help identify the device. I hope you have all Service Packs installed on the system, if you don't, that would explaing the missing partition. What tool did you use to duplicate the SSD in question? – Ramhound – 2013-03-05T19:41:01.160

I'm have all the latest SPs installed. The drive is a Crucial M4 128GB and I used their cloning software that came with the drive, EZ Gig IV – garethdn – 2013-03-05T19:48:53.627

Lost hard drive space after clone

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