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Cloning Dell 80 GB to WD 320 GB makes partitions wrong sizes

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Using Clone Disk on Acronis 11 Home, booting from CD, I want to clone an 80 GB Dell drive to a WD 320 GB drive. All seems to go well on setup, but it shows that the main partition (C:) will be ~70 Gb, with the extra space on the drive allocated to the partition that holds the Recovery information. Is there a way to get the extra space on the C: drive partition? Thanks in advance!

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Would you mind also confirming the version of TrueImage. There has been so much confusion on the forum of people posting having v10 or V11 whereas they readlly meant they had versions 2010 or 2011. Now, when people post they have v10 or v11, we are in doubt as to what version they really have. Which version of Windows, also.

You can do a manual clone and adjust the parttion sizes to your own needs. It would be helpful if you would post a screen capture of your Windows Disk Management graphical view of your old disck. This shows the size and arrangement of your partitions. Right click on "Computer" icon (desktop or startmenu) and click on the Manage option; and then click on the DiskManagement option which will show the partions picture that I am asking to see.

Click on my signature below to view my index and look at item #3. Particularly item 3-BB, 3-AA and 3-CC. These will show you how to manipulate the partition sizes.

Acronis Home 11. I am using a boot CD and want to replace a failing hard drive that cannot be booted from in the original system. What is happening is that when I do an automatic partitioning, Acronis makes a C: drive partition that is the same size as the old drive, then puts the extra space into the partition that the Dell Recovery is on. When I try to manually adjust the C: partition, it gives me no option to increase the size of the drive. I can make the recovery partition smaller, but that only gives me a large amount of unallocated space.
I will look at your reference materials. I'm sure this is a problem that many people run into when cloning to a larger drive and having a recovery partition like the Dell does. Thanks for your help!

Drive in question that I want to clone is Drive F: in this WDM screen shot.

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I am having this same problem. I am running a bootable cd that I was told to use by a tech on chat yesterday. He sent me the link and I created an image on cd with the .iso file and it constantly crashes when I try to clone. When I try to back up sector by sector, it cannot find my destination drive.

This program has an extremely poor and very unintuitive user interface. This should be automatic and easy. Even with the silly Dell partition. You know there are a few Dell machines out there. Duh, maybe millions. What does it take to make this program do the one single task I spent the money to do??