Factory Image - Running Out of Space

It may be reporting this because Acronis might have allocated a drive letter to the recovery partition wheras before it would probably not have had a drive letter allocated.

You could try entering the disk management console and removing the letter D that has been allocated.

 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/82994-drive-letter-add-change-remo…

(You might find (and this is nothing to do with removing the drive letter) that the recovery partition is non functional anyway after cloning the drive. The only way to know would be to see if the factory restore was still operational...but that would mean your present install would be wiped clean if you commited  to going through with a restore. If the partition was non operational then you could simply reformat it and use it for storage etc or extend your C drive into it). 

No, it was called D before but that drive/partition (now called G) had more free space.  The SSD is smaller than my original HDD.  Also Acronis created a SYSTEM (E) drive that I don't think was there before. I think Acronis split my original FACTORY_IMAGE into a new FACTORY_IMAGE and a SYSTEM, but I'm not sure.

The amount of Used space in the FACTORY_IMAGE partition in the old drive is just slightly more than that used in the two new partitions FACTORY_IMAGE and SYSTEM.

I'm unable to give you a definitive answer on this I'm afraid.

Having read your latest reply, my concern now is that you may well be trying to fix something that has through the transfer process become broken anyway. Factory restore partitions can be very fussy on anything that appears 'different' and this can render them non operative.

What I'm saying is that you can try and fix the low space warning issue but you may be fixing something that isn't of use anymore anyway.

If a new and empty partition has appeared then it may well be possible to merge the D partition into E. You do that by deleting the E partition in Disk Management (which takes it to unallocated space) and then extending the D drive into this freed up space. Again the warning that you are quite possibly fixing something that is of no use anyway.

One option would be to make a disc image of your whole drive as it stands now and store that image somewhere safe such as on a plug in USB drive. Then try what I've suggested to fix the space issue and then also try entering factory restore to see if it at least appears to work.

OK what I've done is shrink 10GB off my main C drive using Windows 7 and then extend the D drive using Mini Tool Partition Wizard.   I still have the original partitions on my HDD.  What I've done should allow space for any updates that Windows needs to add to the D drive.

Since doing this I've noticed Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer freezing/jamming, but this may be coincidence.

Theres no logical reason to suppose that altering the partitions has affected Windows in any way.

Although this might sound like a cop out, when you start having unexplained problems... well that might be the time to consider a clean install and remove any issues carried over from cloning the drive. You also currently have the option to clean install W10 free of charge.

Have you tried running a full disk clean (including the clean system files option) and also a full browser clean ? Then do a restart and see if things are any quicker. I'm not sure how Windows handles this, but you've gone from a traditional HDD (and so Windows was set up accordingly) to a SSD which would, if you had originally clean installed onto a SSD be configured a little differently. For example you should have lost the option to defragment your drives and that should now be replaced with 'trim/optimise'. Has that happened ?

The SSD should also have the partition offsets as correct. That should be correct and all taken care of by the cloning operation but its worth checking.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/Checking_SSD_Alignment