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I am a complete beginner to the art of cloning, therefore apologies if what I am asking has a simple and obvious answer.

I am trying to clone my Sony Vaio laptop’s ssd 500gb hard drive to a ssd 1tb using Acronis True Image OEM. I used the easy clone option as other elements were locked, and all seemed to go well.. two days later the cloning finished and i installed the drive.

The drive booted up and all was well, but the vast majority of the drive seems to be inaccessible. I’ve tried disc management, right click, (win 10) and cannot seem to do anything with it.

All I want to do is add it to my C drive.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

 

 

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Kenneth, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please see KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

Cloning a laptop drive should only take around 20-30 minutes unless there are some hardware issues with the source drive, so taking 2 days is excessive by any means.

From your description, it sounds as if the clone has given you the same partition sizes as from your original smaller drive, i.e. only using 500GB of the new 1TB drive space.  This is fairly easy to fix as follows:

Download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and install this.

Next launch the MPW application and I suspect you will see a Windows Recovey partition sitting between your main C: OS partition and the unallocated space on the new drive.

Move the Recovery partition to the right end of the unallocated space by right-clicking on it, select the Move option, then drag it to the right end so that the unallocated space is now next to the C: partition.

Now resize the C: partition by again right-clicking on it and using the Resize option.  Use the grab handles to drag the right end of the C: partition to use all the unallocated space.

For future reference, please see the following Acronis documents on cloning.

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

Important: Please make a full disk backup of the source HDD to another external drive before attempting to do the clone operation.  This is your safety net in case of anything going wrong or if any mistakes are made etc!

See 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 

Hi Steve,

many thanks for your reply and apologies for taking so long to respond.

Tried recloning again and was successful, only 36 hours this time, used the partition software and everything works well. I now have a working laptop with a large hard drive.

Many thanks for your response and help in pointing a beginner in the right direction.

Slainte

Ken