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Cloning an existing drive to a larger one

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Good day Folks! I was wondering if you could help me with this problem that I'm facing. I currently have a 2TB Internal HDD. I bought a 4TB HDD to upgrade my storage. I want to clone my current drive to the larger one. I wanna know if I clone my current HDD using the clone tool, will all of the 4TB storage be utilized by True Image while creating partitions or not. I'm a little skeptical about it leaving large amounts of stoage unallocated. If anyone could explain the process in simple terms, that would be fantastic. (I read the guide on this site already but it doessn't seem to answer my question)

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Bryan, welcome to these public User Forums.

What version of ATI will you be using here?

How are you intending to perform the clone operation?

Important:  Make a full disk backup of your working 2TB HDD to an external backup drive before you do anything else.  This is your safety net against any errors or problems that may arise.

Next:  Create the Acronis rescue media on either USB (preferred) or CD/DVD media, and find out how your Windows OS boots from the BIOS, i.e. is it a Legacy/MBR system, or a UEFI/GPT system.  This is the second part of your safety net.

ATI can expand your current partitions to fit on the larger 4TB drive when doing a clone but this can depend on the options chosen and also whether any partitions on the current drive have any issues etc.

Running CHKDSK /F on the 2TB drive before starting is recommended.

See the following reference documents:

KB 63252: Acronis True Image 2020: how to back up files or disks

KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk

KB 61665: Acronis True Image 2019 and 2020: Active Cloning in Windows

Bryan,

Is your current disk formatted as an MBR disk?  If yes then it the format is limited to a maximum of 2TB.  To make use of the full 4TB as one partition the larger drive need to be formatted as GPT. 

Your statement that you want to upgrade your storage leads me to believe that this drive is a storage only drive.  If it does indeed have Windows installed on it then what Steve has written applies as well.