![]() If you agree with everything I just said, please feel free to proceed with step 1 below.ġ – Create a System Image Backup of the SSD (you’ll find a link to the instructions for creating one in Bonus Tip #1 at the bottom of this page).Ģ – Right-click on the Computer icon and click Manage.ģ – In the left hand pane, click Disk Management.Ĥ – Find the entry for your SSD. You also agree that if the waters of the Mississippi River start flowing back upstream, a lightning bolt strikes ole Bessie and she starts dispensing buttermilk, or your PC loses data and/or refuses to boot, it isn’t my fault. ![]() ![]() By following the steps listed below, you do so at your own risk. ![]() Important: This tip involves changing the size of the primary partition on your boot drive, a procedure that can possibly result in data loss or even an unbootable PC if something goes wrong. As luck would have it, this is a very easy fix: Rick’s answer: Alan, when you cloned the hard drive onto the SSD it created a partition on the SSD that matched the partition on the hard drive. What do I need to do to make Windows 7 see the entire 512GB? ![]() I was able to clone the hard drive’s contents onto the SSD with no problem and everything works great, but when I view the drive in “Computer” it shows up as a 320GB drive instead of 512GB. Question from Alan M.: I replaced the 320GB hard drive in my Acer Aspire desktop computer with a Crucial 512GB SSD. ![]()
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