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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. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup: 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. Smile | :)

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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