
Does anybody know how to deal with this?”ĭo you have the same confusion after cloning hard drive to Samsung SSD or to other kinds of hard drive? The most possible corresponding answer would be, you clone the old drive byte for byte. You get the same layout because you cloned exactly the same file system and partition tables. That’s what you ended up with, an exact copy of the original partition.

How to use unallocated space after cloning SSD/HDD? Besides, the unallocated space may exist before and after the cloned partition. If you get a piece of unallocated disk space after you clone hard disk to larger HDD or SSD, you will not be allowed to use it for data storage until you create a new partition with it, or add it to another existing partition. Creating a new partition with the unallocated space is pretty easy.

Just keep reading! Situation 1: Unallocated space right behind the target partition What if you want to add the unallocated space and extend partition after cloning? You have different options in different situations.
