![]() Yesterday I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to try and resize my partition. RESIZE ERRORS WITH MINITOOL PARTION WIZARD ![]() NEED TO RESIZE, NOT EXTENDĪt first terminology was a bugaboo for me in this sense: I tried for 3 days to do "Extend" operations with MiniTool, and through searching SO and Google, eventually figured out that I was doing the wrong operation. I noticed that I had a bunch (1164.38 GB) of Unallocated space on the new drive in addition to the 5 original partitions. I was able to clone my drive to the new one and it boots into Windows fine, but it only shows up as a 750GB partition (actually it's 5 partitions with C: being the largest/main/system one, which is exactly as it was on my original hard drive). MiniTool was relatively new to me also, but I had recent success merging 6 partitions of a 4TB external hard drive together, so I decided to give it a try. Well, I followed all those steps, except instead of Macrium Reflect, which was an unknown entity to me, I used MiniTool Partition Wizard 9.1 Pro. DRIVE CLONED SUCCESSFULLY, BUT NOT USING FULL SIZE! I discovered via this YouTube video that inside a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB external USB3 portable hard drive is a standard 2TB SATA drive which can be used in a PS4, and presumably in an HP laptop as well. SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS SLIM CONTAINS 2TB SATA HARD DRIVE And voila! That should be it and all should be good in the world. Clone the internal disk to the external disk.Download and install a disk cloning program like Macrium Reflect.Attach a new larger SATA drive externally.Leave my current SATA (original) hard drive in my laptop.Using this HowToGeek post I learned that I needed to do these steps: Here is a quick screenshot of my current partitions: I did further research on how to upgrade my SATA drive to a larger SATA drive (not interested in solid state SSD at this time). I researched to find out what the largest size internal hard drive my laptop would support and it turned out to be 2TB. ![]() I have an HP Pavilion 17 running Windows 8.1 which came with a 750GB hard drive. I can't resize the Windows 8.1 system partition to utilize unallocated drive space.
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