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Just clone the drive and resize the partition.
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Matthew D 1y ago

Eli5 what resizing the partition means?

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Alex 1y ago

Basically lets your computer know there’s more space on the drive

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OceanSlim 1y ago

When you clone a 1tb drive to a 2tb drive, you will have a 2tb drive with a 1tb partition (cloned from your original drive) and 1tb of unallocated space left over. You want to resize the partition you cloned to then include the remaining unallocated space in your new drive.

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🐉AT ₿01 1y ago

Resizing the partition doesn't wipe the data?

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OceanSlim 1y ago

No, you can add the unallocated space to the existing partition. You can use easeus partition manager for easy mode. Or clonezilla for expert mode.