How to clone a small disk to a big one with using all space

Cloned HDD/SSD will not increase in capacity

AOMEI
April 7, 2021

How to clone a small disk to a big one with using all space

Sometimes when you clone a small disk to a larger one, however the cloned disk will not increase in capacity. How to use the full capacity of the large target drive? There are two ways to accomplish this:

Method 1: Edit partition before cloning

When you do the disk clone, you can click the "Edit Partitions" button.

You can select "Add used space of all partitions" so that the destination disk partitions will be automatically resized to the entire disk, appropriate for the disk size.

Or you can use "Manually adjust partition size" to manually edit the destination partition size and location by dragging the slider bar.

Method 2: Extend target drive in Windows Disk Management after cloning.