[REQUEST] Cloned OSX Mavericks from 320GB to 500GB How to Extend

[Abet Computers]

Okay, So I have a MacBook Pro running Mavericks in the shop, customer ran out of room and wanted a bigger hard drive. So I tossed the old 320GB into my Aluratek Cloning Device and it does a sector to sector clone. I cloned it onto a 500GB HDD but of course when I put in the upgraded 500GB the mac only sees 319.21GB but under disk utilties it sees the 500GB so I go to partition section and pull down to extened the partition and click apply it gives me the standard message of the you are resizing this drive. and it does a 2 second scan and nothing changes.......


What can I do to get this thing to read the full 500GB without losing the data.

 

[lcoughey]

The usual way to go about it is to use disk utility to copy the partition on the smaller drive to a partition on the larger drive, assuming the drive is healthy.

 

[Markverhyden]

As long as the original is running fine what I do is make a TM backup. If the target machine came with 10.7 or later you can boot up into recovery mode with the new HD and do a TM restore.

 

[TAPtech]

I've run into issues before with Disk Utility not being able to expand a partition. What I use these days is Paragon 15, using the automatic partition resizing feature. Works great.

 

[Ben Bessett]

Agreed, you really want to use 3rd party software. Disk utility doesn't always do the trick. Stellar Mac partition manager works well... I haven't had to do this for awhile but I believe it costs some money. gparted also is capable of doing this. It might be simplest to do the Time Machine trick though for the simplest solution as suggested above! I don't do a lot of cloning these days because I am a big fan of the fresh install.