How to get True Image to see a WHOLE new hard drive?
Hello. I have been using Acronis True Image for years and love it! I'm currently running version 10 on a Fujitsu P2050D laptop. OS is Windows XP, service pack 2.
I just installed a 160 gig hard drive in place of the old 60 gig hard drive. I did a recovery from an Acronis backup file made a few days ago. It worked perfectly and, in fact, I'm typing on the computer with the new drive right now. :)
BUT... When I go to "My Computer" and look at the properties of the C: drive, it only shows it as a 60 gig hard drive. Why is that? Also, when I booted and ran Acronis from the CD, and I added the new drive, it only gave me a max partition size of 128 gigs. Is that some sort of limitation? I'd like to be able to use as much of that 160 gigs I bought, but over 30 gigs somehow went "missing"?
I'd appreciate any help. First things first is I'd like to get my "old computer/hard drive" restored on this new 160 gig hard drive and not have it limited to the old 60 gigs. I'm guessing this is an easy Acronis format type fix that I'm somehow missing?
Thanks so much!
-Scott

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See http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/08/3426/gh_acro… for some help.
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Thanks, Thomas! Page 10 of that long PDF was exactly what I needed. Just needed to add the C: partition, then the MBR partition and THEN do the restore. Worked like a charm and all 128 gigs is now available. Now, is it just a limit of TI 10.0 to only allow 128 gigs as the largest partition? I tried putting in a larger number and it kept defaulting back to 128 gigs. Is there any way to use the other approximately 30 gigs on my 160 gig drive? Thanks again...
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Hello Scott,
Let me shed some light on the issue you have.
This 128GB limitation is not related to Acronis software, it's a Windows one. You need to enable 48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing ) in order to see large partitions on IDE/ATAPI drives.
Please refer to this Microsoft article for a workaround.
Please let me know if you need any further assistance.
Thank you.
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