Reclaim a partition?

[Tony Meloche]

I purchased Acronis TruImage today, and things didn't go well after
installation and first attempt at a backup, so I decided to start over
from scratch. I removed Acronis successfully, and System Restore took
me back to yesterday's settings fine, but SysRestore will not,of course,
give me back the partition I created. Is there a way to return the hard
drive to "before Acronis"?

The program comes highly recommended by many of the MVP's, and it's
perfect for what I want, but I think I'll really woodshed the User Guide
before trying it again.

Thank you for any help!

Tony

 

[DL]

If this was the Acronis 'safe' partition, or whatever it calls it - I dont
remember - then Acronis can undo it

 

[Tony Meloche]

If this was the Acronis 'safe' partition, or whatever it calls it - I dont
remember - then Acronis can undo it

Yes, that's what I am referring to, but I think uninstalling Acronis
first was a mistake - the reinstalled program doesn't see it as an
"Acronis" partition now - just a partition (space taken from the free
space on my C drive). Pre-Acronis, I had three partitions on the C:
drive: Dell's emergency recover, System Restore's partition, and the
main "C" drive. That's the state I'd like to return to,if I can (in
other words, return to the amount of free space I had on the C drive
before I started).

Tony

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Yes, that's what I am referring to, but I think uninstalling Acronis
first was a mistake - the reinstalled program doesn't see it as an
"Acronis" partition now - just a partition (space taken from the free
space on my C drive). Pre-Acronis, I had three partitions on the C:
drive: Dell's emergency recover, System Restore's partition, and the
main "C" drive. That's the state I'd like to return to,if I can (in
other words, return to the amount of free space I had on the C drive
before I started).

Tony








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re-install Acronis, and use it to remove the Acronis Secure Zone. Then
uninstall Acronis.

Good Luck.

 

[Tony Meloche]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:
re-install Acronis, and use it to remove the Acronis Secure Zone. Then
uninstall Acronis.

Good Luck.

Thank you for the response, but I did that - once reinstalled, Acronis
does not "see" the hidden partition it created originally - that's the
space I am trying to get the drive to "see" again.

Tony

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

re-install Acronis, and use it to remove the Acronis Secure Zone. Then
uninstall Acronis.

Good Luck.

Thank you for the response, but I did that - once reinstalled, Acronis
does not "see" the hidden partition it created originally - that's the
space I am trying to get the drive to "see" again.

Tony








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Try BootITNG from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html to
manipulate your partitions.
It is fully working and free for evaluation for 15(?) days. It can be
run from floppy disk or CD so there is no need to install it.
It should allow you to rejoin your lost Acronis Secure zone to the
partition it was carved off from.

Good Luck.

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

It is fully working and free for evaluation for 15(?) days.

Make that 30 days!

 

[dobey]

Make that 30 days!

AFAIK the partition tools don't have a limit. It's the boot loader that has
an expiration period.

When he makes a boot disk he should choose "partition work" from the options
and it will boot straight to the partition manipulaton screen.

Be advised though BootitNG can't format a partition using NTFS. It can
resize, move, copy, image etc a partition that uses NTFS, but can't format.
Took me a while to find that out.

 

[Tony Meloche]

AFAIK the partition tools don't have a limit. It's the boot loader that has
an expiration period.

When he makes a boot disk he should choose "partition work" from the options
and it will boot straight to the partition manipulaton screen.

Be advised though BootitNG can't format a partition using NTFS. It can
resize, move, copy, image etc a partition that uses NTFS, but can't format.
Took me a while to find that out.

I appreciate the thoughts, Dobey. I merely want to expand the main NTFS
to include the 70-or-so gig of space it isn't currently showing (but
used to be, before I screwed things up).

Tony

 

[dobey]

I appreciate the thoughts, Dobey. I merely want to expand the main NTFS
to include the 70-or-so gig of space it isn't currently showing (but used
to be, before I screwed things up).

Tony

If you have two partitions you want to merge, or expand one partition to
fill up space you can do that without data loss, though backing up is
recommended naturally.

Just delete your unwanted partition then resize the existing partition.
Assuming the existing partition is already NTFS, then it will remain that
way. It is only creating a new NTFS partition that cannot be formatted, why
I don't know. I assume copyright reasons.

You can create/copy an image of an NTFS partition and paste it to a raw
drive no problem.

I only mention the inability to format since you can nominate NTFS for a
partition, but not format, which made me think I was doing something wrong
or the program wasn't functioning correctly. The on-line help for the
program could be a bit fuller ;-)

 

[Gerry]

Tony

I haven't all that has gone before and I am not familiar with working on
Acronis.

How does Disk Management see the partition? Does it show it as
formatted?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Tony Meloche]

If you have two partitions you want to merge, or expand one partition to
fill up space you can do that without data loss, though backing up is
recommended naturally.

Just delete your unwanted partition then resize the existing partition.
Assuming the existing partition is already NTFS, then it will remain that
way. It is only creating a new NTFS partition that cannot be formatted, why
I don't know. I assume copyright reasons.

You can create/copy an image of an NTFS partition and paste it to a raw
drive no problem.

I only mention the inability to format since you can nominate NTFS for a
partition, but not format, which made me think I was doing something wrong
or the program wasn't functioning correctly. The on-line help for the
program could be a bit fuller ;-)

Well, I got BootitNG installed fine, and went to "Partition Work".
Bootit showed the three partitions that are on the hard drive (that's
right), and showed all of them - *including the main partition, that I
have 70+ gig missing from* - as being their correct sizes (IOW, my main
partiton in BootIt is exactly the full size it should be). So the
problem is that *Windows* is seeing the full drive as 70 gig short. It's
all there, but windows doesn't see 70 gig of it.

Again, thanks for trying, though.

Tony

 

[DL]

When in windows; under Disk Management what is actually reported?

I might be wrong but I thought the Dell recovery Partition was a hidden
partition