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Solved New 4TB SSD

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Danny

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I'm having a problem with my SSD, I'm not the best with computers which is why I'm here so hopefully someone can help me with it.

I currently have 1TB and I am trying to clone it to the 4TB. When I went into disk management the fist time around I wasn't sure which option to choose mbr or gpt so I chose mbr as the other drive was mbr. The trouble was there was partitions on the drive unallocated and it would only let me extend volume so much and the rest would not extend.

I did some Googling and read I should have chose gpt to get the full 4TB without partitions. I formatted the SSD to start from scratch again and right clicked the disk in disk management and chose convert to gpt. Everything seemed fine, thought I had done it as it all went to 4TB unallocated well 3.80 or something like that. So I started again and used Samsung date migration software to clone the drives, it took around 2 hours.

Once everything was done I switched on the pc again thinking it would be done but I've gone into disk management and it has gone back to mbr like I did the first time around. It has given me (D) 500mb, (E) 1677.53 GB (unallocated) 369.98 GB (unallocated) 1678.02 GB. So my question really is how do I get this to be just all in the same partition instead of split? I thought choosing gpt would do this as it showed before I started that it was all in one.

So basically I now have 2 partitions that I can't use worth about 2TB, I don't want to use them as separate drives. Can anyone help with this? Any help will be appreciated.
 
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If this helps, this is what it is showing me right now. Disk 0 is my new 4TB SSD. Disk 1 is my original SSD that I have tried to clone to new 4TB. Disk 2 is a 2TB but only has games on it. I have labelled which is mbr and gpt.


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#3
g'day Danny and welcome to the forum. :)

due to the 2TB limitation of MBR and the fact that the current drive is MBR and cloning will copy that partition style, as well as the data over, you will have to setup the drive as GPT yourself first, then install Windows yourself.
then you can copy your data over from the original drive, but yes, software will need reinstalling.

I would be getting your latest Windows build onto a bootable USB stick via the Windows Media Creation Tool.
only have the new drive in the PC and no internet connection.
install Windows then the pre-saved chipset drivers downloaded from your motherboard's manufacture web site.
reboot making sure it's all working OK.
then power off, reconnect the old drive as a secondary drive, plug in the internet and reboot.
 
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Hello, thanks for your response.

I've actually had to return the hard drive as it wasn't a genuine Samsung, I will upload pictures of my 1TB against 4TB. I have ordered another from somewhere else and hopefully it is genuine.

I have did some more Googling on this and I believe I can change to UEFI in bios and convert to GPT with this software AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition would that be right? I looked at a guide here on how to do it mbr2gpt. This would mean I don't loss any data and don't have to reinstall Windows I believe.

As for SSD here is genuine and not genuine.

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sneaky buggers - did you find out the actual manufacturer?

as to AOMEI, I've never used it so couldn't say, but hey - worth a shot.

still think your better option, on a new SSD, is a fresh install.
 
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Yes very sneaky indeed and I bought it off Amazon brand new so how many other people have been duped? I wouldn't have know if it wasn't for the software and I'd probably have just kept it not knowing. I don't know who made it but it looks identical to original, I suppose if you opened it up it might tell you but did not check.

Ok so I managed to convert my C: from mbr to gpt. I'm hoping now when my new ssd comes today I can just clone it and it works then just erase everything on the 1tb ssd. I will check back and leave message if it works.
 
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Ok so it seems to be all sorted now, all drives are gpt and it is booting up from the new drive now. Erased all data on 1TB original drive and it is empty. The main part is the new 4TB is now all 1 instead of different drives like it used to be.

Thanks for your help, much appreciated.
 
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