[nollie]

I am in need of the help of anyone who has used Acronis True Image Home to transfer their setup to their new hard drive.

I have done all the necessary steps - creating a backup of my system, although when I restore the backup to my RunCore drive though it runs fine - it automatically creates a 16GB (or 14.91GB to be precise) partition which I do not know how to expand to the full 64GB (59GB).

I have tried cloning the disk directly, which requires a reboot right at the beginning of the process, however when the process runs after the Windows 7 loading bar finishes, it scans the available partitions and says the destination partition cannot be found. :S!!

I have tried using partition magic 8.0 to no success.

What can I do? Please help. This is driving me insane.

[nollie]

Sorry to double post but this is infuriating.

Before I try would anyone know if I just copied all the files on C:\ drive to a full 64GB partition would this work?

When I try and clone the disk directly using Acronis it 'runs' for about 15 seconds then the progress bar 'finishes' and says I must reboot to complete the operation.

I am going to give the freeware HDClone 3.7 a go.

[holmes4]

No, copying the files would not work. Yes, it needs to reboot. Let it do so.

[nollie]

The problem was that upon reboot the computer would then throw me an error message, or do nothing.

I changed the software I was using to Paragon Disk Manager and resized the 16GB partition to the full amount after much fiddling.

Now it works a treat.

[Abecedary]

Perform the clone process so that it does a direct transfer of the 16GB partition to your new 64GB drive and reboot from the new drive. Once that's done, download EASEUS Partition Manager (nice free-for-home-use partition utility). Install it, run it, and expand your partition to use the rest of the space. Reboot, let it do its thing, done. If you just do a simple partition expansion, it should only take a minute or two. If you try to do anything fancy (like deleting the diagnostics partition), it will take considerably longer since it has to shuffle your files around. Good luck!

[davico_rosello]

Originally Posted by nollie

The problem was that upon reboot the computer would then throw me an error message, or do nothing.

I changed the software I was using to Paragon Disk Manager and resized the 16GB partition to the full amount after much fiddling.

Now it works a treat.

exactly what i came here to say

[Tervel]

Did you try to boot from WinPE and run Diskpart with the Extend command? That will typically take care of the remaining free space and extend your existing partition into the unused space. Also ImageX should be just fine for capturing the existing partition. Both free products, both made by Microsoft so pretty much guaranteed to work on Windows.

[khakiman]

i recommend trying acronis disk director

[Disaster]

I ran into the same thing the first time I tried to restore an Acronis image to a larger drive. By default it is set to expand to exactly the same size. I finally found a solution on the Acronis forums...though I can't recall what it was now except that it required some arcane choices in the image producing process. Worse, I recall there being different procedures depending on which version of Acronis you have. It is much easier to clone and yes you need to reboot because Acronis does all it's work outside the Windows environment and only uses the Windows GUI for setting up the imaging process....not running it.

Increasing the partition size, after the clone, is also a viable solution.