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Not having a good week, new issue - survival kit not working to restore

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My original ssd was 120gb, my new one is 500gb.  So when I did the restore, it is still showing the drive as 120gb.  In disk management I can see 354gb is unallocated.  Is there a way of combining that to my C: drive, rather then making it a separate partition?  And of course doing it without wiping any data.

Michael, download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition  Wizard and use that to move any partitions that come after your main C: partition to the right-end of the unallocated space, then you will be able to resize C: to use the extra space available. A restart will be needed to perform the resize but this should be no issue.

@Steve thanks again for all the help.  MiniTool Partition did the job & that worked.

I do have one final question regarding acronis.  I have 3 different external drives of aronis file backups, as well as a couple survival kits.  All of these acronis processes run at certain times.

However, that obviously only saves me in the event of a computer crash.  So I do have an online cloud subscription as well.  Only issue with that from what I learned with their support a few years ago is that even though they say its "unlimited" there system can actually only read up to a "certain amount of files".  So once I hit that amount, which was more than a couple million files, it stopped backing up anything new.

So ultimately I just switched to only backing up the most important of folders.  In any case, if I wanted to throw a few .TIB files up there periodically, besides the fact that it would take a while for them to upload at my size & then download if I ever needed them.  They would indeed work (not become corrupted) if I ever was in such a crunch of that sort, correct?  Obviously for the survival kit I know I would need a drive that has it booted onto there.  But mainly concerned about the file backup .TIB files.

So I do have an online cloud subscription as well.  Only issue with that from what I learned with their support a few years ago is that even though they say its "unlimited" there system can actually only read up to a "certain amount of files".  So once I hit that amount, which was more than a couple million files, it stopped backing up anything new.

Michael, who is the online cloud subscription with?  I have not heard mention that the Acronis Cloud has any limit on the number of files being stored, only limits on the amount of storage associated with the subscription account.

In any case, if I wanted to throw a few .TIB files up there periodically, besides the fact that it would take a while for them to upload at my size & then download if I ever needed them.  They would indeed work (not become corrupted) if I ever was in such a crunch of that sort, correct? 

 My understanding in that Acronis exclude .tib files from Cloud backups as providing you have the storage space, you can make a direct backup of the source files (for the .tib) to the Cloud which is a whole lot more efficient than uploading / downloading .tib files.

Any transfer of large volumes of data carries an associated risk, so you would need to run a validation of any .tib files moved in this way before using them for recovery.

Ok thank you for the info.  Service is with carbonite.  Took many hours of calls with them a few years back & eventually I was escalated to their tier 3 department.  Who realized that they do have a cap on the amount of files that could be backed up, I don't remember the specific number it was somewhere around 3.5 million.

So I only backup the most important 1/3 of my files so to speak.  But adding a TIB file is an additional solution since its technically only 1 file, or in my case 20 total when I include the incremental backups.