Cloned from another ehd & now lost space?

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#1

Hi Everybody

Today have cloned from my Iomega 500gb ehd to my WD My Passport Ultra 2TB.

When I look now, the WD is stating it only has 127gb of 500gb free. Help have I actually now lost 1.5TB or am I being stupid!

I know it has literally cloned everything from the Iomega, but I didn’t expect it to to ‘clone’ the actual space aswell?

I have left both the ehd as is, so I can erase if absolutely necessary - but if that’s the case will it go back to 2TB?

Sorry lots of questions.

Many thanks

Lisa

#2

Hello,

You can just allocate the remaining 1.5 TB by going to disk management. Or you can delete the 500GB partition and format the complete 2TB drive.

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