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Acronis True Media Home 2010: D partition in cloned disk gone (NTFS -> raw)

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I downloaded the latest Acronis True Media Home 2010 (7/27) and used "Clone Disk" utility to clone my 160GB hard drive to a brand new WD Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive (the laptop, if it matters, is a Fujitsu S6510 with Vista Business from the factory). I chose automatic option which copied my C and D partitions proportionally to the new hard drive.

The cloning went through without any issue. When I switched the disk I got the dreadful winload.exe error. No worry, I clicked recover during boot which successfully repaired Windows.

The problem now is my D partition is gone. When I look from Disk Management it shows the partition as raw.

Is this something I can fix by assigning the partition a driver letter and a NTFS type, or am I hosed? I am desperate now as I need the laptop working - with more disk space - in the next 24 hours.

Someone please help. Thank you.

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Hello Raymond,

Thank you very much for your post. I will do my best to assist you.

First of all, the windload.exe most likely was caused by the fact that you did not disconnect the original hard drive after cloning. We have a tutorial for cloning and this is one of the most critical steps to perform in order to avoid problems with booting into Windows. You can check it here.

The RAW partition issue is most likely caused by the cloning process. I am not exactly sure which steps you performed during cloning, but it is always best to use manual cloning because there is more control to allocate free space on the new partitions in order to avoid losing space. The same tutorial that I mentioned above shows how to do that too.

You can definitely assign a drive letter and recover that lost space, please check this quick step-by-step guide for more information.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.