(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ive cloned my 300GB HDD to a 500GB SSD. It works. Games work.

All is well except for the fact that my new ssd has as much free space as my old hdd had. This is a common problem when cloning the ps3 hdd as i see. The total size of the drive is correct, yet the available space is way short. Games load super fast n everything works. But im not able to use another 160 something GB of space.

Has anyone found a way to fix the partition size problem? Ive looked elsewhere and people seem to lose interest or give up, the topic tails off and fizzles out.

I figured i could just readjust the parition size through hex, but im having trouble. Should i have cloned it a different way? I used winhex and made a clone image, and put that on my new ssd. (I WILL NOT USE THE BUILT IN PS3 BACK UP! 300GB of crap to redue? NOPE!) Ive looked and looked, and have found nothing thats helped. Seems like this problem should be squashed by now.

Any ideas?

As a side note...
Old 300GB HDD has a sector start, partition, and unallocated space, in WinHex 1.8
New 500GB SSD has the same after clone (as it should obviously)
but if i format the new SSD in the PS3, hook it back to PC, its all unallocated space. So i guess the table on the 300GB HDD is a lil messed up, but both disks work like there is no problem. So thats not a big issue. Just weird that the PS3 doesnt care.

have you tried plugging it in to a computer and going to a disc manger and just extending the partition?

All Ps3 formated disc show up as "unallocated" in windows. I would try mini partition wizard and see if it can extend the volume but keep a back up of the old drive if it goes bad.

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Thanks everyone...

If i repair file system(?) it shows as unallocated, so musta been an old mbr or something from windows on there, from before i put it in the ps3.

I can... start over as i have done. (still have my old hdd to play with)
I can ftp everything. That will take forever and some files fail, so id have to make sure everything was transferred. And then do it again to the new disk.
I could use prodg to map the disk and transfer that way. But it only transers at 1.5MB/s for some reason. Id be dead by the time it would finish.

I was really hoping to be lazy about this. Guess not. Ill keep looking into it, and maybe find a way. Could be usefull for other things that have formats not recognized by windows.

Again, thank you.