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Hi!  So I have an existing 500GB HDD which has about 455GB of space for 'my files', the OS and such and 9.71GB of 'factory image'. When I'm looking at Cloning with automatic setting to a new WD 1TB drive, it looks like True Image wants to allocate 465GB  for 'My files' and 465 GB to 'factory image'. Which to me doesnt make sense.  What if I want to still give the factory image 10GB only.. and the rest of the new HDD the rest?  BTW, the drive I'm cloning will contain Win10 so it'll be bootable when done.  

In trying to read the manual for manual cloning, I can't quite figure out how to tell the system to proportionally give the new drive 10GB for the factory image and the rest of the drive for 'my files'.

If I choose 'as is' in manual mode, can I ever write to the unallocated space or does that become a dead zone?  If I choose manual partition, I see a screen that says 'select partitions on your new hdd from the list below' but I can't figure out how to make it work.. 

So right now I see C drive (my files) - 465.8 GB, D drive (factory image) 465.2 GB, NFTS System 100MB, NFTS unlabeled 450MB.   

When I click 'edit' for My Files and dial it down to 10GB it seems ok.  But when I try to make the C drive another 455GB larger it won't let me.

Help!

 

 

 

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Not sure why Acronis would give both partitions equal space - I haven't really used the clone feature, as I generally just take an image and push it back to a new drive and it's eazy-peazy.  

If you do the clone, I don't think it would really allocate so much space to your recovery partition - might just be a softare bug.  No way to find out though unless you try if that's what it's saying.  

After the clone, once Windows has booted up, assuming it does things correctly, you can simply extend the remaining "unused" space on the drive.  It's as simple as going to

Control Panel >>> Administrative Tools >>> Computer management

  Expand System Tools >>> Expand Storage >>> Click on Disk Management

    Locate your new drive (the one you should be booted into) and click on it.  In the "unallocated" space, right click and "extend".  Select the entire amount and Window will do this on the fly pretty quickly.

If it does really allocate the space though, you have to shrink the unused part of the recovery drive (Windows does this too, but not nearly as well as extending it).  Youd' be better served shrinking it with PartitionTool Wizard Free (offline media preferred).  Then use it to allocate the unused space to the other partition. 

******Alternatively, instead of a clone, and this is what I normally do... take a full disk image of the existing drive and save the backup elswhere (say another external drive) if you have the space available.  Then use the Acronsi offline recovery media and push the image to the new drive - it will push the image and you won't have to reallocate any space.  

Just reread your notes from above again and missed your last comment.  If it lets you shrink the first partion but not extend the other one, don't worry.  Do that and extend the data partition using Windows Disk Management after the clone is complete and you have booted into Windows on the new Disk.  Should be good to go.

Believe it or not I only just today finally cloned my drive.  the old drive started to make noises, and that made me take the leap.  The good news is that the close worked perfectly.  The bad news is that when I go to disk management and right click on the 'unallocated' space (445 GB) the option to extend is not present (it is colored black BTW).  I can see the option to extend the small factory image partition (colored blue).. which I don't want to do.. And when I click on the main drive (also colored blue) which has 465GB i can only see the shrink option, extend is greyed out.  

 I tried to search the Microsoft forums for guidance but no luck :(  Help!  I've attached a screen capture to show you what I see.

 

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Something must be written to the end of the drive - caching on SSD's may be using the end of the drivet, or it could be a locked file by antivirus.  When Windows won't let you do it,  I use MinitoolPartitionWizard Free for these types of issues.  You can grab the iso from their website and boot to it or convert it to a USB installer using RUFUS or something like that.  Alternatively, you can install it on the system and just run it from there.  If need be, it will restart the computer and boot up into it's interface and then allow you go make changes.  

To be on the safe side, I would take an image of the drive (just in case), but I've never had any issues using it. Better to be safe than sorry though.