hard drive - While installing windows only 700GB of 3TB is showing as a partition?

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2014-07
  • Chris

    I recently bought a new hard drive and installed windows 7. Then I found out I have to install it using GPT so I tried to re install. Apparently I deleted the windows partition because after restarting my computer and trying the install again I only see a 700GB partition. Before I atleast saw the whole 3 TB as 2 partitions even though they weren't usable in windows. How can I start fresh and get the install to recognize all the partitions?

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  • Semyon Perepelitsa

    I've bought a new hard drive and want to move all my data to it. I had no problem with moving all files on non-system partition. But I don't know how to move system partiton.

    Now I have 3 partitions on the new disk, fist two was created by Windows installation CD (I tried to move system using internal tools, but it didn't work for me), third is filled with my successfully transferred data from old disk.

    And there are two partitions on the old disk: the first one is system (Windows 7) and the second one is my old main storage, that I already moved to the new hard drive and now it is empty.

    How can I change the placement of Windows 7 with minimal difficulties and losses, so I could work on the new hard drive just as I did it on the old one?


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  • churnd

    You need a disk cloning solution. If you don't mind paying a few $$ for some very good software that you'll probably use after this, get Acronis True Image. If you want something free, try Macrium Reflect or Clonezilla.