Can I use Acronis True Image to expand my Windows 7 System Disk
It seems to upgrade to Windows 8 that Disk must be 100 mg --min is only 25 mg.
I tried booting from another partition and using disk manager to expand it--but it gave me a warning that it might not be bootable when I finished.
I've also tried booting Acronis off a Thumb drive but the only options that were active were to add a hard disks.
thanks,
Stephan
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Hello Stephan,
So I understand, and for the benefit of others here... Are you saying your System Reserved partition is only 25mb, and Windows 8 wants 100mb to upgrade? Maybe I am misunderstanding what you've said?
Who built this system? Is it OEM or did you build install windows 7 yourself? Expanding the system reserved partition is possible/difficut/risky since it is not assigned a drive letter by default, may be configured a certain way for a certain purpose by an OEM, or risky since expanding it might change the offset and render the system unbootable. It might be helpful to post an Acronis Report so we can see what you are working with and advise accordingly. Additionally, advice on upgrade from win 7 to windows 8 may go beyond the scope of this forum.
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Thanks for the comments.
I actually built the Windows 7 System on another hard drive. Then I got an SSD and cloned a disk.
I'm wary of expanding it--but when I try to install WIndows 8 Pro, I get an error that it needs more room.
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Whatever disk utility you use, first you will have to adjust left boundary of partition 2 and create some "free space before" in order to have expansion room for right boundary of partition 1.
Next, you will have to expand the right boundary of partition 1 into the newly freed space.
If it were me, I would use a utility that boots from a CD (such as Partition Wizard) and perform the move/resize procedure from the CD without Windows involved.
With Partition Wizard, it is practice until you commit the changes.
I don't know how you can avoid the error message and it is a gamble. It may boot or may not boot and you may need to use the Windows recovery CD and do a startup repair.
If you were to use TrueImge Home,you would perform a restore of a full disk image backup and restore them as single partitions in multiple passes until all restore. Each partition would need to be size individually as restored and the correction made on the first partition. This optioned is illustrated in link #3 below using the item 1 guide.
I certainly would not try any adjustments until after you have made a disk image full backup of your system.
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