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Upgrading to larger HDD with ATI ver9

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This will be a first for me; disk imaging. I’ve had Acronis TrueImage 9 for almost a year now and never used it for HDD replacement. Reformatting and reinstalling OS is too much of a hassle. I need to replace my present desktop HDD, a 40GB with a new 500GB one. Old HDD is only 1 partition, but want to increase that to 80GB’s for primary and split remaining storage into roughly equal partitions. I’ve already created a TI rescue CD and ran validate backup archive, results were successful.
I’ve read all 37 pages of the tut by GroverH (Partition Restore with Resizing Using TI Rescue CD Acronis True Image Home (version 9-10-11) 4 times, plus some Google results, so I’m about ready to take the plunge. Some of the material is a little confusing, dealing with multiple partitions, of which I only have one. Could I not replace my secondary slave drive with the new one, partition it the way I want with Add New Disk wizard, replace the old primary with the new one and do an image restore from the TI rescue CD?
Jay

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Before you do anything, first use your Windows Disk Management and look again at your old system drive just to make sure you have no hidden or diagnostic partitions.

Yes, it is possible for you to create your own partitions first and then restore your C drive. Except, go ahead and remove the old disk and put the new on in its place and then do the partitioning using TrueImage Add new disk wizard. All of this is done when booted from the TI Rescue CD.

If necessary, you can do the formatting of the additional storage partitions later after Windows is booting into the new disk.

If restoring only the C, you should not need to restore Track o/MBR which can be done later should it be needed.

Thanks Grover for your reply and your excellent guides. I'm including a screen of my drive setup so you can see what I have. This is a Dell refurbed puter and checking it out for graphics and video editing. As you can see there is only the c drive; puter came with xp pro reinstall disk.
Acomdata is an external USB where backup resides.

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It looks like you are all set to begin. Having only the one partitions makes it much easier to resize.

You also have one other alternative method of restoring should there be a need. This method is described in Restore guide item 7A in my index. This alternative would be a disk option restore which would produce an identical disk (same size partitions) with the resulting new space in one large unallocated block. Then, a free partitioning utility could be used after the disk is booting normally. The utility could be used to assign and format the new unallocated space.

You may want to consider changing the Windows assigned drive letters in the new expanded partitions. I would definitely change the drive letter of the external drive to one such as X or Y or Z so he drive letter is always the same no matter what you attach in flash drives or cameras, etc.

These free partition utilities are available for a free download.
Partition Wizard Home Edition 4.1
EASEUS Partition Master 4.0 Home Edition

I also note from your screen capture that you hav2 dynamic drives. Dynamic drives are not supported by Acronis V9.

SUCCESS!!! A great big thank you Grover; everything went great. I ran 2 dry runs and when they were ok, I took the plunge. Went flawlessly. I changed all drive letters and partitioned the unallocated space from Windows Disk Management.

Great! Preparation is the key. The time to know whether it works or not is before there is a crisis.