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Restoring to a larger hard drive

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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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Scott,
You have to expand the partition during the restore process. You do this after selecting the destination. I haven't used v8 in years, but believe what's true now worked the same way back then. Maybe someone else will confirm.

I am surprised you have a PC that supports 160GB HDD if its BIOS is circa '98 era.

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

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…