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version 2014 oem - move Win10 to another larger disk

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Hi, i need help to understand why after i've cloned my old ssd (120GB) with win10 to another one that is larger (500gb), i've got two partitions:the first one naturally is a perfect copy and the second one is defined as"restore partition" but is unuseful. it is not a logical drive, without a drive letter so i can?t use it. so now i've got my new 500GB ssd with the first partition of 120 GB and the second one of about 380GB unserviceable. what did i do wrong?

i'd like to have just only one larger partition of 500GB because Win10 need more space. 

thanks

claudio

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Claudio, welcome to these user forums.

Please be aware of two important points: first OEM versions of Acronis products are supported by the vendor who provides them and are generally older versions of the equivalent Acronis full product with limitations; second, ATIH 2014 is not supported for use with Windows 10 in terms of being installed within the OS, but may work OK when used outside of Windows with the Acronis bootable Rescue media.

When cloning, Acronis offers options to automatically resize partitions from the source drive to the target drive, which sounds like has happened in your case, but has resized a hidden Windows Recovery partition and allocated the majority of new drive space to it.  You can also opt to clone the partition sizes 'as is' so that you end up with partitions on the new drive of exactly the same size as the old drive, but with the remainder of the drive left as unallocated space where you can either resize your OS partition, or create a new second partition in the free space.

At the point where you are now, you have several choices:  

  • repeat the clone and resize 'as is'  then redistribute the extra space after all is done.
  • use Windows Disk Management to remove the hidden Recovery partition (which Windows probably created when upgrading, or may be a manufacturer recovery partition?), then expand your Windows partition into the freed space.
  • use a third-party partition management tool such as Easeus Partition Manager free to resize the recovery partition back to its original size, then move that partition if necessary to make free space adjacent to the Windows partition, then resize the Windows partition.

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Hi Steve, many thanks for your help. Unfortunatly situation is not good. cloning this way has created a problem not only of space on the disk but much worse my Windows 10 online account with microsoft was lost. I mean my pc was not more recognized by Microsoft. after that i did so many things that i do not remember, the final result was terrible. I created a migration file on a second disk then i tried to reinstall W10 from that disk to the new one but something went wrong (maybe i choose the wrong drive letter or what else) and i've lost everything in the "d" drive.

Now i've got W10 brand new in "C" and my WindowsImagebackup in "D" and am waiting for a helping hand by Microsoft the rescue everything from my previous installation.

At least my drive "C" now has only one partition of 490 GB.

Have a nice day,

Claudio