Acronis 2019 cloning a hard disk to a bigger ssd
I am trying to upgrade from a spinning hard disk (250GB one partition) to an SSD (500GB) that is bigger. Both disks are controlled on the motherboard SATA interfaces. No matter what I do, I can't get the partition on the SSD to be any bigger than what was on the hard disk.
I choose Manual clone mode, choose my C: drive as my source, my SSD as my destination.
If I choose "As is" move mode, the Before and After graphic shose the After with a 232GB partition, a small unsized partition and 244.GB unallocated section.
If I choose "Manual" move mode, it shows a 232GB Unlabled partition and a 244GB recovery partition). If I edit the recovery partition to be smaller (do I really need a 244GB recover partition?) by sliding the left end of the slider to the right so that the partition is about 100GB, When I try to edit the Unlabled partition by moving the right slider further to the right, the blue area in the graphic goes away and the partition size isn't changed. Looking more closely, I see that the blue area in the graphic denotes a 232GB partition and appears to imply that there is unallocated space available but the graphic says the maximum size (little number above the right hand end of the slider) is 232GB. I'm not able to change the partition size value under the slider.
Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!


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Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reply. I edited my post a few times and one of the last changes I made wast to say that the source drive was only one partition as depicted in the graphic (which makes sense since I don't remember partitioning the drive). I would like to migrate my 250GB spining drive to my 500GB SSD and have only one partition on the SSD. Is that a wise plan? If I should have a recovery partition, how should I size it? Hopefully, you'll be able to get me far enough down the road to consider the size of any recovery partition.
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Jim, sorry but there are no graphic images shown in this topic.
It would be unusual for your source SSD to have only one partition - there would be expected to be other hidden / system partitions on the drive, depending on the type of BIOS used.
If you the MiniTool Partition Wizard, this would show exactly how many partitions are there?
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Thanks again, Steve. I downloaded the MiniTool and used it to migrate my source spinning disk to my SSD. It seems to work fine but strangely, my SSD is not listed in my boot order! That being said, it seems to boot fine!
Again, thanks for your help! I hope you have/have had a great Thanksgiving!
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Jim, assuming that you have removed the spinning drive and replace it by the new SSD, then if you have an UEFI BIOS system, the boot device would show as Windows Boot Manager rather than as the actual drive.
Thanks for feedback and glad that MiniTool was helpful here.
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I had this same question. I purchased Acronis 2009 and 2017.
I was doing a simple clone of a Windows 7 disk and wanted to use a larger HD.
It had two partitions on it as usual. It had a small 1000mb diagnostic partition and a larger C:\ OS partition.
It gave the option of doing it proportionally and of course, this made the diagnostic partition way to big. So I choose the manual resize option. I played with this for a long time until I realized there was no way to resize without creating unformatted space. There was no way to move this unformatted space to the other partition and merge it with the larger partition. It would have been nice if I could have just made the diagnostic partition small and the data partition bigger but this was not an option.
I started doing a lot of research and noticed this is never covered in any instructional video or anywhere else in a comprehensive way.
I did notice that several people who showed on youtube a how-to video that did not seem to realize that this was a problem when they showing the steps. They just ignored that they just cloned to a larger disk and wasted a ton of space.
As it was said in this string you can go behind the cloning and use a utility to resize your partition once you are done but this many times can cause additional errors and just takes more time than should be needed.
I am yet to use Acronis successfully to move data to a larger drive. I am still having to use my older alternate cloning software until I am able to resolve this issue.
I have not asked this on this site before so maybe someone will finally give me a more simple way to moving data to a larger drive.
Harry
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Harry, you need a dedicated partitioning tool such as MiniTool Partition Wizard. It will allow you to recover the space.
Ian
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I will download it and try it.
Harry
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