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I made use of Macrium Reflect to clone my 250Gb Hard drive to my 1.5tb

The cloning was successful but it shows on my 1.5 tb that 1.14 Tb is unallocated how would I be able to make this allocatable partitioning it ?

Apologies for the noob question my first time doing this
 
Create another partition or resize the existing one. To resize you need to boot from different bootable device device (USB, CD-ROM, another hard drive)
 
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Just use disk management under Administrative tools in the Control Panel to "Extend" the partition
 
@ OP
Is your OS on this drive or is it just for data? If OS then rather create a second partition in Disk Management, else extend the partition per PsyWulf.
 
I use dmde http://softdm.com/.
Free edition has got full disk imaging. Difference from other free tools is that author has extensive knowledge how to handle disk errors. You can define options how to react on errors, important when your source disk is not in good condition and can lock itself during copying.
 
byron_spy said:
I made use of Macrium Reflect to clone my 250Gb Hard drive to my 1.5tb

The cloning was successful but it shows on my 1.5 tb that 1.14 Tb is unallocated how would I be able to make this allocatable partitioning it ?

Apologies for the noob question my first time doing this
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Did you try clonad ?
 
Question in slightly different matter. Which program can create emergency disk image from NTFS partition? Not a sector by sector image, as target would need to be at least the same size, but intelligent, so entire OS installation would fit on smaller media (memory stick or DVD disk).
I know, it can be done by resizing partition to the required size, then do imaging, or cloning to the large target, then resize on the target. This is too much trouble. Anything more handy?
 
For years and years I've used Acronis to make images. It puts a typical Win7 + apps installation of 55GB into a 27GB *.tib file. Partition size is irrelevant and can be resized on restore. Also makes bootable flash drive and CD/DVD.

Upgraded years ago from Home to corporate version called Acronis Backup & Recovery. My company uses the server version. The Universal Restore add-in allows restoration to dissimilar hardware or on the fly conversion to VM. All my old PCs and laptops are imaged and run in virtual machines if needed.

Indispensable. Worth every penny.
 
Arthur said:
For years and years I've used Acronis to make images. It puts a typical Win7 + apps installation of 55GB into a 27GB *.tib file. Partition size is irrelevant and can be resized on restore. Also makes bootable flash drive and CD/DVD.
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Thanks, but it looks like it is bloatware. I can't interfere with existing installation. Need to boot from optical drive or PXE network server, make an image to the same device and good bye.
 
sajunky said:
Thanks, but it looks like it is bloatware. I can't interfere with existing installation. Need to boot from optical drive or PXE network server, make an image to the same device and good bye.
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Acronis allows boot from bootable media or PXE (includes a PXE server), so you don't touch the installation/drives.

Bloatware? What bloated about it?
 
Arthur said:
Acronis allows boot from bootable media or PXE (includes a PXE server), so you don't touch the installation/drives.

Bloatware? What bloated about it?
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20 or 30 MB download for simple job copying partition? And what if I want to restore image back? 30 days is over, must pay 50USD. I don't need many sophisticated features in the program, just simple, specific job.
 
Elimentals said:
dd to clone gpart to expand the partition :)

dd if=/source/device of=/destination/device (See you already done this part)
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If you're using 'dd', make sure that you specify a bigger block size, like 4k at least, otherwise you'll spend days waiting for the cloning to finish! ;)
 
Pada said:
If you're using 'dd', make sure that you specify a bigger block size, like 4k at least, otherwise you'll spend days waiting for the cloning to finish! ;)
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Well if you wanna be technical I normally use

`bs=100M conv=notrunc` or sometimes `conv=noerror` depends if it bombs or not
 
Arthur said:
Acronis allows boot from bootable media or PXE (includes a PXE server), so you don't touch the installation/drives.
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I see many freware capable smart copying NTFS:
- Clonezilla Live
- ntfsclone
- DriveImage XML (free for private use)
- Partition Saving
- Paragon Backup and Recovery (free ver)
- StorCube ?
- Macrium reflect (free version)
- Kleo Bare Metal Bacup for servers
- HDClone ? (free version)
- R-Drive Image (licence is not clear)

Will keep posted.
 
byron_spy said:
I made use of Macrium Reflect to clone my 250Gb Hard drive to my 1.5tb

The cloning was successful but it shows on my 1.5 tb that 1.14 Tb is unallocated how would I be able to make this allocatable partitioning it ?

Apologies for the noob question my first time doing this
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What operating system is it? If Windows 7, then just do as PsyWulf suggested.
 
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