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After failing twice, my recovery finally finished successfully on the third try. Now, two more questions if you don't mind.

1. I have seen several posts in different threads about using the back usb ports. But my only usb 3.0 port is on the front. Is it still a better idea to use a back port, which is usb 2.0?

2. After my recovery, if I go to "start", then "computer", my new 1TB hard drive is recognized as my old 500GB drive, with not much space left. But if I go into "device manager", it correctly shows as my 1TB drive. This is the only drive connected. Has anyone even heard of this happening? With minimal use, everything else seems to be OK. Any advice?

As always, thank you very much for the help. I always appreciate it.

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Ed, glad to hear that your restore completed successfully.

Front USB ports have been reported as being less reliable or under powered by various users in the forums, hence you will see suggestions to use the ports at the rear instead.  With USB 3.0 this has higher power requirements than USB 2.0 - some reports suggest almost double needed, hence again why a powered USB 3.0 device is recommended over using one powered via the USB port or not using a USB hub etc.

For the new 1TB drive only being recognised as 500GB, this sounds as if you did not allow Acronis to do any automatic resizing during the Restore operation, hence the restored partitions now have the same size as they held on the original drive the backup was taken from.

You could always repeat the restore a further time but I would suggest not doing so as you should be able to remedy the size issue in other ways, namely by using one of the several free Partition Manager tools available, i.e. Mini Tool PM, Easeus or AOMEI PM tools.  These would allow you to resize the partitions as needed, though you should not touch the System Reserved or UEFI / EFI partitions.  If you have a Recovery partition at the end of the current partition space, then this can be moved to the end of the drive to make free space adjacent to the main Windows OS partition.