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About 10 days ago, I posted a thread; The Lounge[^] discussing how to decide when it is time to upgrade your machine.
In among the sarcasm, humor and anecdotes was actually a couple of good suggestions, with the key one being upgrade to SSD.  Thank you to those who suggested this.
What impresses me most is how much faster web browsing is, I guess caching all those images to the HDD really slowed things down.
With that said, I have managed to stumble on to an issue
When the drive arrived, I jumped on CNET read a step by step article on upgrading your HDD to SSD, downloaded the recommended tool, plugged in the SSD to the USB and cloned the HDD to the SSD. Removed the HDD and installed the SSD. Crossed my fingers and restarted the machine. Much to my elation, it booted quickly, windows started faster and life was good. 
Hey wait a minute. Not so fast. What's this? I bought a 1TB SSD and when I look at the drive properties it says 500GB. It shows the other 500GB as un-partitioned space, which makes no sense for an SSD. 500GB was the size of my HDD. Apparently the shareware tool caused this during the clone process. Moral of the story - "you get what you pay for", or "if it is free it is for me, except when it comes to shareware"
Has anybody else run on to this? Am I hosed at this point and have to go back to ground zero and start the process all over again? Or is there some way to claim the un-partitioned space?
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Computer management/disk management and expand the drive.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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The tool simply duplicated your old partition on the SSD. The other 500gb is unallocated. There are tools available that can change the size of the partition without loosing any of the data.
windows paretition manager - Google Search[^]
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This is a free partition resizer works fine for me:
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free[^]
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Just curious here but what SSD did you go with. When I had to rebuild my home rig I went with one of these: Intel 600p[^]. I tell you what, those M.2 SSDs running on the PCIe bus are stupid fast and quite reasonably priced.
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I'm looking at this one for my 7-year-old Acer laptop:
Amaon: Crucial 500gb[^]
I'm seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That will certainly speed your Acer up but I don't think that you will get anything near the advertised speed unless your SATA bus is version 3.0 or higher. SATA 2.0 is capped at 300 MBs.
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1. it'll still be much faster than a normal HDD, and
2. later if you update your machine move that SSD over coz the new hardware will give you that SATA 3.
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That's a really good price...almost a no-brainer! I've got an 8 yo laptop that received a SSD transplant about 2 years ago. Huge improvement! Well worth the money even then. At times I prefer it to a much newer hp laptop which seems to be haunted. 
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Crucial doesn't have the reputation Intel or Samsung have for their SSDs, but I have no idea what they're talking about.
I have 4 or 5 Crucial drives, and I'm very happy with them.
The price you're looking at makes it a no-brainer, even if your laptop's bus might not allow it to run at the full speed the drive is capable of. As a bonus, being a bog-standard SATA drive, you know you can physical migrate it to another system down the road.
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All SSD is, is a different kind of memory than RAM. Crucial has an outstanding reputation for their RAM modules.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Avoid Kingston. I've had 3 failures (out of 8) within 2 years of installation.
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I got a sandisk and it's already up and running.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Regarding "seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine", I am thinking along the same lines. If you do this, please let us know how that works out.
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Crucial is good brand.
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I hope you did NOT by a CRUCIAL SSD.
we will no longer install them. We have had 3 SSD Failures. ALL OF THEM CRUCIALS.
Oh, they replaced 1 or 2 of them under warranty. Useless because by then, they were too small anyways, but we did it to extract our pound of flesh.
2 of them were FIRMWARE Problems THEY CREATED by having some leftover testing code in. We used them for too many hours, and triggered the code. We use ABC: Anything But Crucial. LOL
We like the SanDisk ones, and have no problems. We replace every 3 years. Our machines are usually on 24x7.
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Nope. I pretty much stick to Intel SSDs. I have yet to have one die on their own without some external cause. I lost one when a cheap-a$$ SATA cable shorted out; sparks, fire, and smoke included. Lost most of the PC on that one 
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Well, all of the SSDs have 5-ratings amounting to between 84 and 87%, so in all truth, it's a crap-shoot anyway.
There's also this one in the same general price range:
Amazon.com: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB 2.5 inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM): Computers & Accessories[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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After over 35 years of experience I seen EVERY brand of every component "screw-up".
I've had problems with SanDisk SSD's - strangely slow R/W was one. Replaced with an APACER Armor - not a major SSD player - and it "screamed". So there you are?!?!
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They are - I'm using one for my current home PC. But most laptops - especially older ones - wouldn't have the interface for it.
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Personally, I'd create another partition or two out of that unallocated space...just something I've always done.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That's what I would do too.
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Another free partition manager: AOMEI Partition Assistant[^]
I used it to migrate my HDD to SDD, and it was a painless, simple process. And it resizes partitions very nid=cely without losing any info.
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