Restoring to a larger hard drive
I replaced a 40 GB hard drive with a 160 GB hard drive in my Win 98 PC.
I set up the new drive in Acronis 8 with one Active Partition that us 147 GB in size. When I set it up Restore Image, it recognized there is one single partition of 147 GB in size.
I did the a Restore, and when I rebooted, the hard drive shows up at 37 GB in total size...the same size as the drive image I was transferring to the new hard drive.
How can I set it up to show the new drive in it's full capacity of 147 GB of usable space?
Scott

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When preparing for the Restore, I set up a single active partition of 147 GB. it showed clearly on the bar graph that I was restoring to one partition of this size. But, after finishing, there's just the original 37 GB showing on drive "C"...no extra space.
I retried it by "Adding a New Drive" in Acronis...setting up a 38 GB active partition, plus a second logical partition of 111 GB (which I labelled drive "G"). Once again, only the original 37 GB drive shows up after restoring.
I went into my 1999 Phoenix BIOS Version 454NB0X1.15A.0019.P11 at "F1 Setup". It shows:
Primary IDE Master
WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3)-(PM)
Maximum capacity: 65535MB
Also, when my Win 98 PC starts to boot, it shows a 160 GB hard drive. So I know my PC can see a hard drive that large.
A few times in the past, when I've restored an image to this computer, it created 2 hard drive partitions...and active one and a logical one (Drive C and Drive G). I used the logical drive for data storage.
I'd be happy if I could do that again.
I'm puzzled.
Scott
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Not sure, but this PDF guide may help but it was not 98.
https://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/08/3426/gh_acr…
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