Unallocated disk space
Hello,
I successfully cloned a one TB drive to a four TB, and had selected manual in an attempt to use all of the additional drive space. The new drive is bootable and has about two TB space on the OS partition, and a small amount on the recovery and system partitions. There is, however, more than one TB in an unallocated partition that I cannot seem to get activated. In Windows disk management, it does see the unallocated partition but there is no way to move the OS partition or (preferably) set up a new partition with the unallocated space. What should I do?
Thanks,
Loretta


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Thank you but in Windows disk management, I can see the unallocated space but the option to select New Simple Volume is disabled or greyed out. Also tried from a command prompt running DISKPART and EXPAND.
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Is your Windows installation a 32 bit version? if yes you have probably found the limitation of such systems as they cannot address more than 2GB.
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Loretta,
Below is a link that provides information on the 32 bit 2TB limitation and Windows OS systems. Hopefully in reading you will better understand this situation and your own.
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Acronis should consider restoring the Extended Capacity Manager to handle situations like this. The firmware of many systems that run Windows 7, 8, and 10 do not support UEFI which is required to boot from a GPT disk. This would be still a valuable feature to those users.
Loretta,
If your system isn't UEFI capable I recommend submiting feedback to Acronis about your experience.
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