Inspiron 7777 AIO, upgrade RAM and SSD

I ran into my first issue. When I choose my external drive (H:) as destination for my Image, it tells me that the destination is part of my image and to choose a different folder. It would not give me an option to create a new folder on my drive, so I rebooted and made a new folder. I got the same error. Do I need to wipe the drive before booting in to Macrium? Or perhaps connect the drive after boot?

Still optimistic :)

Could it be that the partition allocated to C: is only 222GB? How would I change this now that I have a much larger drive?

Phew, OK, now the hardware is replaced (the most nerve wrecking thing I've done in my life). I booted again from the USB-stick, got a message that new RAM was detected and proceeded on to the Macrium interface. I chose the image i created in the top window and the Samsung 1 TB in the bottom window and hit the Restore icon. It took roughly an hour/hour and a half. I shut down and booted successfully from C: :)

I'm just a bit puzzeled - when I go to My Computer and check the C-drive, it says that it's 222 GB, not 1TB. I don't get it, when I go further in to check hardware I can only find the spinning disc (D:) 1 TB and the Samsung 1TB. And of course the two external drives that are still hooked up (the USB and the Seagate).

Have I gotten something wrong? I'm sorry, the screenshots are in Norwegian - you probably recognize the Properties-panels :)

Hi @Camomilla ,

Volume size of the image equals to your original drive. When restore it to new hard drive, it restore with the same volume size by default. There should be options to expand volume on the destination to maximum possible size during restoration. 

Don't worry, you can still expand the volume size now:

1. Press the Windows key on keyboard
2. Type in "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter, Windows Disk Management Tool will be opened.
3. Right-click on Drive C and choose "Expand Volume"
4. By default, it will then show you the maximum expandable volume size. Press "Expand" button to finish the volume re-size task.

jeg skjønner :Smile:

Sorry that your pictures can't be seen yet. What is the disk size indicated under Disk 0? And is there any un-allocated space right behind C drive?

Yes, I can see my own pictures, but not yours. Hopefully they're helpful for others when they're approved :)

Disk 0, Standard, 931,39 GB Klar (ready?):
Data (D:)
931,39 GB NTFS
OK (primærpartisjon) (Primary Partition?)

Disk 1, Standard, 953,74 GB Klar (ready?):
500 MB OK (EFI systempartisjon)
OS (C:)
222,22 GB NTFS
OK (lots of stuff)
Winretools
483 MB NTFS
OK (OEM-partisjon)
Image
14,07 GB NTFS
OK (OEM-partisjon)
Dellsupport
1,09 GB NTFS
OK (OEM-partisjon)
-- no headline --
715,39 GB
Utildelt

These are my numbers :)

Utildelt = Not allocated

The Expand volume is called Utvid volume in Norwegian (this is turning in to a linguistic exercise as well :p )

I found it :) It's called 'Diskbehandling' in Norwegian :p However, the option to expand is greyed out, the only active is 'reduce volume'. It says that the drive has 715,39 free space. 

Thank you for your patience @bmcowboy !

Sure, feel free to email me at

@bmcowboy Unable to send you a pm with details, as I seem to have reached some sort of time-limit. Any other way I can contact you?

It's my first time providing remote support for a member in this forum, and thank you for your trust indeed, @Camomilla. Feel free to come back if any other questions or problems.

Besides, if you find any replies that helps, please mark them as solutions in order to benefit other people with similar question. Thank you again.