Resizing Partition After Cloning From Smaller HDD

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A few months back, I needed to install a new, larger HDD on a laptop for the wife. This was the first time I had ever installed a new HDD and cloned the old drive to the new one. I bought Acronis TI Home 2010 just to do this migration. Due to learning curve issues and trouble finding information in the documentation, I had numerous problems. After consulting with my daughter's boyfriend, he fixed the problem (missing MBR) but I don't know what he did.

At any rate, that experience prejudiced me against Acronis and gave me buyer's remorse. Just this past weekend, I received a new, larger HDD for my laptop. I decided to use Acronis again despite the problems last time, assuming that I've somehow become more intelligent. Apparently I have because the process went smoothly except that I now have a partition the same size as my old HDD on the this new, 3-times-as-large HDD. I can't find anything in True Image HE that gives me a clue how to fix it.

In order to migrate the data without having to reinstall the OS and all software, I first connected my WD Passport portable USB HDD to the laptop then booted up Acronis and ran the clone partition function. It put a cloned partition with the same attributes as the HDD on the Passport and went to a successful eoj. I then shut down the laptop, removed the old HDD, installed the new HDD,re-attached the Passport HDD, inserted the TI HE 2010 CD and booted the computer from the CD. I chose the option to place the clone on the new HDD. Again, the program ran to a successful eoj. I was never given an option (or at least I don't recall being asked for a choice) to control the allocated size of the resulting partition. When I looked at My Computer with File Explorer, I found the new HDD with the same volume name as the old drive (as one would expect with a clone) but with the same size partition as the old HDD. Even the Properties pie chart looks as it did before the migration. File Explorer cannot see the new disk space.

Today I've been trying to use Acronis to resize the partition to make the new space available. I can't find a way to do it using TI HE 2010.

Can anyone tell me if it is even possible to reallocate using this software, and, if so, how to do it.

TIA

Whoops! Sorry! Forgot the details!

Laptop is an HP 530 running WinXP Pro SP3 and the new drive is an Hitachi TravelMate IDE 500GB and it replaces an HP Scorpio HDD (no longer installed).

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 18:22
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If I am understand you correctly, when you look at your disk from within the Windows Disk Management option, you have unallocated space appearing--hopefully at the end of the larger system partition. If true, you can use a Partition utility to assign the free space to another partition. One such utility is the Partition Wizard. Download the iso file for the bootable Cd and burn the iso image onto a CD. Then reboot with the Partition Wizard CD and use the Resize/move option to resize the partition.

If the last partition is the larger XP partition, you can use the mouse pointer and right click on the unallocated space. Grab hold of the right edge of the last partition and pull the edge to the right consuming all the unallocated space.

However, if your last partition is not the larger XP partition, then grab hold of the right edge of the larger partition and move everything to the right edge to consume the space.

If the changes look correct, then commit/apply the intended changes. If they do not look correct, the click cancel and retry again or ask for more help. The help function inside the Partition Wizard can also assist.

If desired, you can also post a picture attachment of the current appearance of the graphical view of Windows your disk Management

Partition Wizard Cd
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

also, click on the Move/Resize tutorial & see the video available at bottom of screen.
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