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Restoring to larger drive, increasing partition size

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I recently upgraded my laptops 250 GB SSD to a 1 TB SSD.  When I restored my disk none of the partitions expanded and there was unused disk space.  I do not qualify to upgrade my TI 2020 to Cyber Protect.  When I searched I only found an old article to only restore my partition, instead of the entire disk, but that doesn't help with my other recovery partitions.  Odd that years later there isn't a solution to this.  Is the only option a third party disk tool after the restore?

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Michael, using a third party partition tool such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard to resize your partitions to fully utilise the extra space on your new 1TB SSD is actually the best method of achieving the end result you want!

The core issue here is the behaviour of Windows which puts the Recovery environment partition at the end of the drive, which Acronis then isn't able to move to the end of the new larger space, along with a factory recovery partition installed in the same area by some laptop vendors.

Using the partition manager, it is easy to drag & drop these partitions to the end of the new unallocated drive space, then resize the C: partition (or create a new data partition), all from within Windows, then allow the tool to restart the PC to apply the changes once you are happy all is as you want it to be!