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Best Way To Add Partitions while cloning a Laptop Hard Drive

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1. I have a laptop running Vista Home.
2. I am going from 150 gigs to 700gigs.
3. I am going from a two partition disk where one partition is the C drive of 136 gigs and the second drive of 10 gigs (Recovery)
4. I want to clone the source as is and add an empty third partition of 550gigs on the target disc. What is the best way of doing this?
5. I plan to place the source disk in an external USB case
6. I made a recovery disk
7. The user guide is not clear, but I assume that the clone wizard will be available from the recovery disk? Since the unformatted target disk will be the only disk in the laptop?

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When cloning, my first suggestion is to always do a full disk backup of all partition so if there is a problem (user mistake or hdwe issue), you can always restore the backup as a recovery method.

If you wish to clone, your procedure and disk placement is correct.
1. Use the Recovery CD and use the Clone but use the Manual method plus use the manual "as is" option as the move method.
2. The source will be the 150 and the target will be the 700.
3. After completion, remove the CD and shutdown and disconnect the source usb.

4. Boot into the new disk and make sure it boots, etc.
5. Then you can use Windows or a free disk partitioning tool to convert the unallocated space into a 3rd partition. My suggestion would be to use a free tool such as Mini Tool Partition Wizard which has a free CD download. Burn the iso as a CD and use the CD to add the partition.

I prefer the use of the free tool as it has a feature which allows you to perform the action and the action does not occur until you click apply or undo. If Windows used, it is live and no undo.

The Acronis bootable media Rescue CD can be used for practice until you feel comfortable to complete the clone; Press the Cancel option to start over with new settings.

Thanks! Everything worked. I am up and running with my 700 gig Hard drive and 3 partitions.

Thanks for reporting your final results. TrueImage can save a lot of time when there is a need to transfer the OS to a different disk.