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Is there a tool to extend an XP Boot partition?

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I have a 1TB drive on XP, only 500G of which are allocated to the boot drive/partition. Is there a way to extend this to use the entire drive without removing and re-restoring the whole drive.

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Chuck, you can use one of the various free partition manager tools which will do this for you, see such as Minitool Partition Wizard - as with all such tools, the recommendation is to have a backup of the drive before you make changes.

Hmmm, my problem that I am doing this remotely and I have the Acronis Boot/Recovery DVD in the drive. I tried using the Tools to create a patition using the whole drive, which worked, but when I did the restore it was back to 500G for the boot partition. I thought I was able to restore a smaller partition to a larger one -- in fact I thought I'd done this in the past. Am I mistaken?

(btw I am the Original Poster. I have no idea why my name keeps changing on posts to this forum. And when I log into my account it's yet a 3rd name! Probably and issue I'll have to post one day)

I've read about an Acronis product called PartitionExpert. Is that available with ATI2016?

I must be missing something. I',m sure I've used Acronis Restore to restore to a larger drive in the past. In fact, that's been one of the main reasons I've used Restore. I must be doing something wrong! What?

I figured it out. Yes, I had done several restores to larger drives, so this was driving me crazy. For some still unknown reason, the Restore interface was going right from the "New Partition Location" screen to "Finish" without giving me the "Settings of Partition C" screen. On my latest attempt, I just clicked around on different things until finally that "Settings" screen came up. I wish I knew how I got there, but it was rather random. I was then able to re-size the destination on that screen and all worked well. I've probably restored this backup half-a-dozen times or more and never saw this screen till this last attempt.

Chuck, glad to hear that you worked this one out and was able to do the resize OK, thanks for feeding back.