I was cloning my moms 237gb ssd to her new 1tb ssd on her windows 11 S computer using clonezilla and after booting into the 1tb drive it is showing up as 237gb. So I took out my live usb with gparted only to find out the partition used to store the data was indeed taking up 1tb. Is the a reason why it is not showing up as 1tb. Here are the options I choose to clone the drive if that helps. I also have some screenshots as well.

Screenshots

File Explorer

Windows Disk Management

GParted

Clonezilla Steps I took

  1. device to device

  2. Expert mode

  3. disk to local disk

  4. Chose my soure and target drive

  5. Left everything at default

  6. skiped disk checking

  7. -k1 Create partition table proportionally

  • Handles@leminal.space
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    3 months ago

    AFAIK when you clone a drive it will create a partition the same size as the original disk. It doesn’t just copy your files, it’s a full disk partition clone.

    As @breakingcups@lemmy.world said, you’ll have to extend the partition to the full drive size in Partition manager (or gparted on a Linux machine).