ATI 2017 Recovery Failure leave crap on my drive - how do I remove it?
Hello,
After ATI 2017 completely failed to recover my system (https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-home-forum-older-ver…) I would like to remove the vestiges of the failed recovery from my hard drive and move on.
The recover attempt was made to my 2TB hard drive which I am fairly certain is physically ok. Nevertheless Windows explorer thinks that there is only a total of 12GB space (free or not) on my 2TB drive. I tried reformatting the disk, but it only reformatted the 12 GB. As far as Windows is concerned I have a 12GB hard drive, not a 2TB drive. So there must be some hidden vestiges from the failed recovery attempt on my hard drive.The recovery attempt left a folder on my hard drive called 'Recovery', however this folder looks (at least to Windows) like it is empty.
How do I get rid of the ATI left over crap that I cannot see and clean my 2 TB disk?
Thanks
Robert


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Thanks Steve. As it turned out, I could do the same actions with Windows diskmgmt under Administrative tools.
I have a further question about ATI's disk clonnning tool. Is it possible to clone two separate hard drives to a single hard drive? For example a system disk and a data disk? It does not look it is possible.
Could I do it with MiniToolPartition?
Thanks in advance.
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Robert, glad you were able to recover the drive via Disk Management OK.
Cloning is a 1 to 1 copy so not possible to merge 2 separate drives to a single target without the 2nd action overwriting the first.
What you could do here is to clone the system / OS drive to the new drive, keeping the size of partitions 'as is' from the original drive, assuming the new drive will leave enough unallocated space for the data drive contents.
Once you have the cloned OS drive and have tested that this boots OK, then you have various options to get the data to the same drive.
You could create a new Data partition on the new drive then simply copy everything from the Data disk to that new partition, else you could make a backup of the Data disk and restore the backup image to the unallocated space on the new drive.
You can use MiniTool Partition Wizard to make any adjustments in partition sizes after doing the cloning of the OS disk to the new drive, or to resize the Data drive partition size(s) before making the backup is using backup / restore.
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