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True Image Clone error. Now less than half of my new hard drive available

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Hi. I was trying to clone my current laptop hard drive to a new, larger hard drive (connected in an USB enclosure), and at the end of the cloning process (which was done in the Rescue Media boot), the Acronis program froze and wouldn't do anything, at which point I just turned my computer off. I restarted my computer, then shut down, then put the new drive in my laptop. I got a blue screen when I booted up with the new drive. I replaced the old drive back in the laptop, connected the new drive back to the USB enclosure, and thought maybe the information didn't get sent over. So I went to clone again. I got a pop up window that said there were partitions already on the new drive, and am I sure I want to delete these. I said yes. So this time it successfully cloned it, but now the drive is half the size it originally was. I bought it as a 320GB drive, and after cloning my 88GB drive to this new drive, I only have 23GB of free space left. It's saying the capacity is only 105GB! So obviously the other partition wasn't deleted. I'm freakin out a bit now. Anybody have an idea how to fix this, so that I have the actual remainder of my new drive left? Thanks for your help.

I would email tech support, but I have to have a registered product, and lo and behold, I don't know how to find the serial number. I have the bootable disc, but I don't have the box anymore. So if anyone knows that info, too, that would be great. I hate life right now.

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It's a common problem when cloning. Read GroverH's sticky at the top on how to regain the space. Or you can go the Backup then Recovery route.

And it would help to know what version and build of True Image you are using.