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Cloned a SSD 128GB disk to a larger 750GB disk.  The cloning process took all the free space and added it to the recovery partition instead of leaving it as primary partition (usable space).  In addition it (Acronis Software) also created two recovery partitions one the same size as the cloned drives recovery partition and the second all the free space on the drive ~578G.

How do I recover the free space (put it as primary partition).  I used the auto cloning process as it was recommended not sure why the program decided to make two recovery partitions....

 

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Shayne, welcome to these user forums.

Unfortunately the automatic resizing function of the clone process seems to have picked up the wrong partition to give the extra space too and the only way to correct this with ATIH 2015 would be to re-do the clone and manually specify the partition sizes as you want them to be.

If your new 750GB disk is working fine since you did the clone, then I would suggest using Acronis Disk Director to resize the Recovery partition(s) - if you have it, otherwise use one of the free partition manager tools such as Easeus Partition Manager to do this.  Using one of these tools will allow you to take the extra space from the second recovery partition, then to move the two recovery partitions to the end of that free space, so that the free space is adjacent to your system partition, then you can either resize that partition to include all the free space, or create a second partition in that free space.

Note: if you have a MBR partition system then you can only have a maximum of 4 primary partitions, so you would need to create an Extended partition to go beyond the 4 limit.  If you have a GPT partition system this isn't an issue.