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New hard drive won't show full capacity after restore?

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I'm running True Image Home 10 on Windows XP home. I just did a restore to a new 500gb hard drive, yet it only shows a total capacity of 80gb after the restore. 80gb was the size of my old hard drive and the restore image file was about 39 gb. It boots just fine and everything, but where's my extra storage? I know my BIOS can support drives that large because I have an identical second 500gb drive and it shows full capacity.

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Scott,

Look at windows disk management (My Computer, right click -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management).

You will probably see a bunch of unallocated space.

If there is no partition after your main partition c:\System, I suppose, you can easily expand the partition from there.

If not, post a screen capture of your disk management and we can guide you through the steps.

There should be no partitions, either. Just a full archive restore as a primary drive and I selected all existing partitions to be deleted upon restore anyway.

Restore finished. I see my missing 398 gigs as unallocated. How do I regain this in the main partition?

This frustrating because I just did this with a much larger drive swap in a laptop and didn't have this problem.

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Never mind. Downloaded free 3rd party disk partition utility and fixed it myself...no thanks to Acronis...

You should have been able to resize the partition as part of the restore. Note that some versions of TI won't let you resize if you select to restore everything (the partition and the MBR, for example). If this happens, you would need to restore each separately.

Do you know if any file system errors existed in the image? These errors would have been on the source partition when the image was created. TI won't resize a partition that has errors.

Scott,
TrueImage10 does have a restore mechanism to do what you want but it not a straight forward chore. Click on my signature below and check out the restore guide under 3-B

I got my full partition back with a 3rd party utility. It works fine.

The problem I'm having now is trying to clone that drive to an exact same 2nd drive. It goes through the process and when it reboots, after analyzing the partitions, it immediately says the cloning is complete which is obviously not the case. I never had this problem cloning one 80gb hard drive to a second identical one. Is there a problem with my 500gb drives being too large or something?

Scott,

Make sure you read up and follow Grover's cloning guide.

If you have the space on a USB disk, you should go the backup/restore way. That method doesn't expose the source disk to any danger, unlike the cloning approach.

Once done, make sure your computer boots up only with one disk with a system on it. Disconnect one of the disk you just cloned/copied.

Why would cloning expose the source disk to "risk"? Isn't it just a read only operation on that end? Should be...

Also, I've been having excellent luck by just restoring a back up archive from an external USB drive to the second internal drive. Obviously, I have that back up anyway from my C/Main drive, so I just restore that archive/image to my second E: drive. Works like a charm and I've boot tested that drive several times with the main drive completely disconnected. Bonus feature is I don't lose the use of the computer while this operation occurs as I do with the cloning process.

Exactly.

With regards to cloning, it looks like every week or so we get somebody that destroyed data after an accident with cloning.

Scott,
You might be interest in reading my comments about cloning risks. Click on that link in my signature below.