Cloning a hard drive (1 Viewer)

[NewlyRetired]

I think I misunderstood what this meant when I did it but this is what happened:

Hard Drive A was 1.5TB with 1TB of data in it

Hard Drive B was 2TB with 0TB of data in it.

I wanted to create a copy of A so that I could simply plug and play B if A failed with no down time.

I cloned A into B and all the data transferred as expected.

However, I also noticed that the properties of A seem to have been copied into B.

For example, before I cloned, B was a 2TB drive but after I cloned it reads as a 1.5TB drive.

Is this B drive now a 1.5TB drive for life or is there a way to recover its old property of 2TB capacity in case I want to use it in a different fashion?

 

[MaxThreshold]

I think I misunderstood what this meant when I did it but this is what happened:

Hard Drive A was 1.5TB with 1TB of data in it

Hard Drive B was 2TB with 0TB of data in it.

I wanted to create a copy of A so that I could simply plug and play B if A failed with no down time.

I cloned A into B and all the data transferred as expected.

However, I also noticed that the properties of A seem to have been copied into B.

For example, before I cloned, B was a 2TB drive but after I cloned it reads as a 1.5TB drive.

Is this B drive now a 1.5TB drive for life or is there a way to recover its old property of 2TB capacity in case I want to use it in a different fashion?

The cloning software should have resized the image to include the extra 500GB, so it should read as a 2TB drive. What software did you use?

 

[NewlyRetired]

I think I misunderstood what this meant when I did it but this is what happened:

Hard Drive A was 1.5TB with 1TB of data in it

Hard Drive B was 2TB with 0TB of data in it.

I wanted to create a copy of A so that I could simply plug and play B if A failed with no down time.

I cloned A into B and all the data transferred as expected.

However, I also noticed that the properties of A seem to have been copied into B.

For example, before I cloned, B was a 2TB drive but after I cloned it reads as a 1.5TB drive.

Is this B drive now a 1.5TB drive for life or is there a way to recover its old property of 2TB capacity in case I want to use it in a different fashion?

The cloning software should have resized the image to include the extra 500GB, so it should read as a 2TB drive. What software did you use?

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