Restoring A Hard Drive

[Scott]

I replaced the 40GB hard drive on my WinXP Pro laptop with a 120GB
hard drive. I'm using Acronis True Image 8.0. I have an external hard
drive with an image from the original drive, plus drives of other systems.
The original drive also includes a 4GB "D" recovery partition that came
with the system.

I restored the old hard drive partitions to the new drive, and it works fine.
But, the extra 74GB of drive space on the new drive is not being recognized.
When restoring, there was no option in Acronis to expand the active partition
to take full advantage of the larger hard drive space. I tried the "Clone Hard
Drive" option, but it wanted to take the entire partition (much larger) from
the external hard drive and transfer it over. It wouldn't let me select a specific
image to restore, as I can do during a normal restore.

I'm wondering if I should first go into DOS and format the entire "C"
drive of the new hard drive..and then do a standard Acronis restore.

In Windows, I can go into Control Panel/Computer Management and
format the available 74GB into a new partition, but I really want all the
space the "C" drive to be together, not divided into two partitions.

There has to be a way to do this.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Scott

 

[Bennett Marco]

I replaced the 40GB hard drive on my WinXP Pro laptop with a 120GB
hard drive. I'm using Acronis True Image 8.0. I have an external hard
drive with an image from the original drive, plus drives of other systems.
The original drive also includes a 4GB "D" recovery partition that came
with the system.

I restored the old hard drive partitions to the new drive, and it works fine.
But, the extra 74GB of drive space on the new drive is not being recognized.
When restoring, there was no option in Acronis to expand the active partition
to take full advantage of the larger hard drive space. I tried the "Clone Hard
Drive" option, but it wanted to take the entire partition (much larger) from
the external hard drive and transfer it over. It wouldn't let me select a specific
image to restore, as I can do during a normal restore.

I'm wondering if I should first go into DOS and format the entire "C"
drive of the new hard drive..and then do a standard Acronis restore.

In Windows, I can go into Control Panel/Computer Management and
format the available 74GB into a new partition, but I really want all the
space the "C" drive to be together, not divided into two partitions.

There has to be a way to do this.

Any ideas?

Rather than start over, use a partition manager to take care of
things. You need to give all the 74GB of space to "D", then shrink
"D", leaving unallocated space between "D" and "C". Then you need to
resize "C" to use all of that space. You should be able to set all
that up and then commit to the changes.

Personally, I use Acronis Disk Director for that, but here is a
freebie that should get the job done.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

 

[Jerry]

Your best bet would be to use a partitioning program: Partition Magic,
Partition Commander, or similar. A Google search may list more, some
probably free or usable for a short period of time.

 

[Brian A.]

I replaced the 40GB hard drive on my WinXP Pro laptop with a 120GB
hard drive. I'm using Acronis True Image 8.0. I have an external hard
drive with an image from the original drive, plus drives of other systems.
The original drive also includes a 4GB "D" recovery partition that came
with the system.

I restored the old hard drive partitions to the new drive, and it works
fine. But, the extra 74GB of drive space on the new drive is not being
recognized. When restoring, there was no option in Acronis to expand the
active
partition to take full advantage of the larger hard drive space. I tried
the "Clone
Hard Drive" option, but it wanted to take the entire partition (much
larger) from the external hard drive and transfer it over. It wouldn't let
me select a
specific image to restore, as I can do during a normal restore.

I'm wondering if I should first go into DOS and format the entire "C"
drive of the new hard drive..and then do a standard Acronis restore.

In Windows, I can go into Control Panel/Computer Management and
format the available 74GB into a new partition, but I really want all the
space the "C" drive to be together, not divided into two partitions.

There has to be a way to do this.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Scott

I use ATI Enterprise Server so I don't know if this would apply to you or
not, although I'd think it would. Look in ATI help for "Recovery > Changing
the Restored Partition Size and Location" and "Other Tasks > Disk Cloning >
Manual Relayout" and "Other Tasks > Disk Cloning > Size and Position".

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Scott]

I replaced the 40GB hard drive on my WinXP Pro laptop with a 120GB
hard drive. I'm using Acronis True Image 8.0. I have an external hard
drive with an image from the original drive, plus drives of other systems.
The original drive also includes a 4GB "D" recovery partition that came
with the system.

I restored the old hard drive partitions to the new drive, and it works fine.
But, the extra 74GB of drive space on the new drive is not being recognized.
When restoring, there was no option in Acronis to expand the active partition
to take full advantage of the larger hard drive space. I tried the "Clone Hard
Drive" option, but it wanted to take the entire partition (much larger) from
the external hard drive and transfer it over. It wouldn't let me select a specific
image to restore, as I can do during a normal restore.

I'm wondering if I should first go into DOS and format the entire "C"
drive of the new hard drive..and then do a standard Acronis restore.

In Windows, I can go into Control Panel/Computer Management and
format the available 74GB into a new partition, but I really want all the
space the "C" drive to be together, not divided into two partitions.

There has to be a way to do this.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Scott

Update:

I figured it out. I read the Knowledge Base on the Acronis website. They said instead
of restoring the whole disk at once ("c" partition and "d" recovery partition together)
to restore each partition separately. This gave me the option to resize the partitions
before proceeding. I went for the maximum size. After restore, I am now using the
full capacity of the drive...and all is well.

Thank you for all your ideas!

Scott