HELP please, Backupper failed
Hi friends, thanks for any help. All I wanted to do was upgrade the SDXC card in my wife's Android phone from a 64GB to a 200GB. I think I could probably just have copied the files from the old to the new card, but I wanted to be careful so that any apps and programs on it would work. I saw an AOMEI add that said Backupper would do this, so I tried it. Both cards were formatted in exFAT, and I connected them both with SD card readers on my Windows computer. BUT when Disk Clone was done, it had created a 64GB partition on the new 200GB card and leaving the rest of the space unallocated, which is not what I wanted or what the AOMEI ad said it would do. THEN, tying to use Disk Manager to "extend" the primary partition with the unallocated space, I found the "extend" option grayed out so it couldn't be used. (Even though the unallocated space was immediately following the partition Backupper created). I read more AOEMI information which suggested I should download and use Partition Assistant, so I tried that, the free version. BUT I found the "merge" option grayed out on this program. So I am stuck. I don't know if I should format the new card and start over. If so, I'm not sure if I should format it on the phone or on the Windows computer, and if the format will allow me to use the whole storage space or not. If I did that, could I simply copy the files from the original 64GB SDXC card to the new one? I'm not sure what to do about the System Volume Information folder if there is one on both the old and the new formatted card. You see how confused I am. I thought this would be simple. Can anyone help me? Thank you so much.
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However, you may not need any of this. In my case, I undid the cloned partitioning by reformatting the new SD card from the Android Settings Storage menu on my phone. Then I copied all the files over from the old card to the new card, except for the System Volume Information folder, which was already created on my new formatted SD Card.
So, if you are reading this before trying DiskClone or any other cloning software, and you just want to upgrade to a larger SD card on your phone, just try copying all the data except System Volume Information from the old card to the new card. It's easier than you might think.
Thanks again to Vbbritt and to AOMEI tech support for helping me with my question. Looks to me like BackUpper is a sophisticated piece of software for handling a variety of disk management tasks.