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How to Extend Image Size for Bigger HDD

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Hello all,

I had a computer image already created with HDD of 512 G, I deployed it to same computer now with HDD of 1T. I notice the image does not cover the whole size of the disc. I have to extend it manually. Is there any way to avoid that? 

Thank you in advance.

Abdel.

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Abdel, welcome to these public User Forums.

In principle Acronis should resize partitions automatically to fit with larger or smaller drives but in practise it tends to stumble when it is not able to move the Windows Recovery partition that follows the main OS C: partition to the end of the new unallocated space!

The simplest way around this is to use a partition manager application such as MiniTool Partition Wizard to move the Recovery partition to the far right end of the new drive, then resize other partitions as wanted.

There is a free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard; there are probably other free partition manager applications - just do a search for "free partition manager".

Ian