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Question on restoring to original system with a new larger hard drive

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I purchased a new hard drive that is 500 gb which is larger than the original ~230 gb hard drive that came with the computer. I wanted to recover my original image to this disk and was wondering if I should have to partition or format the disk prior to running acronis. I ran acronis true image home 2011 and chose recover whole disks and partitions and select the original disk and mbr and track 0 and it placed the image on the new larger hdd and the drive shows as the 500gb instead of the ~230gb, will this cause any issues or is it all set. Does acronis change the partition information to match the new drive and perform a quick format on it? Would it be better if I formatted the partition first? Thanks for the help.

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See Grover's Guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426 section 3 for several possible approaches.

You don't have to partition the disk prior to a restore. If you restore the disk entirely, ATI will scale the partitions to occupy all the space. THis is not what you want to do if you have several partitions, in particular if some partitions are hidden (system reserved, OEM, diagnostics, recovery or other).
In the case of hidden partitions, it is better to restore each partition at a time, in the same order they were on the original disk. This will enable you to choose the size of the restored partition and scale the C:\system or any other USER partition you have.