My clone created two drives
My cloning a 1TB to a 2TB drive created two areas on the larger drive. 1TB allocated and 1TB unallocated. They are both NVME M.2 drives. They both have the same sector count. The larger drive has become unreliable. I have reverted to the smaller drive. I tried to clone it again, but it won't recognize the unallocated space.
Ed Dowdy
Hello Ed,
would you mind sharing your solution here, so that other users with similar issue could find it? Thank you!
Edward, the main cause of unallocated space when doing a clone operation is the presence of one or more recovery partitions located after the main C: OS partition where Acronis seems to have issues with moving those recovery partition to the end of the new drive space.
The simplest solution is to use a partition program such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard to move the recovery partition(s) to the end of the unallocated drive space, then resize the OS partition to take advantage of the adjacent unallocated space.
Thanks Steve,
I'll take a look at it. I thought I had found my solution with MS disk management. I have already made the unallocated space an active partition. Considering the errors I got trying to reinstall an Origin game last night. That is not the case.
Ed
Thanks again Steve. The Mini-tool partition wizard did the trick. I now have a full sized drive that appears to working as it should.
Ed Dowdy
Fithian IL