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Trying to clone a 37gb partition on a 120gb drive (80+gb are unallocated) to a new 160gb drive (both drives are W.Digital; operating sys is W2000).

True Image insists on cloning from 37 to 149 (apparently the usable size of my new drive) even though I manually set the unallocated area of the new drive to be approx 78gb.
Weird... when given the chance to reduce the allocated size of 149, I click on the down arrow of the 149 and that number stays constant and the unallocated number (which I am not setting) increases up to the 78gb, resulting in a total of 149+78 on drive of 160! Then when proceeding with cloning true image displays that it is cloning from 37 to 149, ie., it won't let me make the allocation smaller than the full size of the drive. This is a difficulty due to the ability to address a drive in excess of 120gb (some old software that must keep running on W2000).
I checked to be sure that I am current on acronis updates/builds.
Any ideas?

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Hello Otto,

I will take care of this case to get it resolved. To have a complete understanding of your issue I need to gather some additional information.

As far as I understand, you're trying to perform the manual clone and the product allows you to clone to 149 GB's only, which are the capacity of entire new drive, is that correct? 

If yes, could you please clarify the following:

- What's the exact name of the product you're using?

- Please let me know the build number of the product, which you can find in the Help -> About dialog (it should be a 3 or 4 digit number)?

- What happens if you choose Automatic lone mode instead of manual?

Please also collect Acronis Report file, which will help us to analyze the structure of your hard drives. In order to create Acronis Report file, please download Acronis Report utility, run it and create a report (with both HDD's attached). The default name of this file is "report.txt" and it is saved on your desktop. After that, please attach the report file to your answer in this thread.

Additionally to this, you are welcome to ask me any other questions concerning Acronis, and I will assist you further.

We are looking forward to hearing back from you at your earliest convenience.

Thank you.

A 160gb drive will be reported as 149gb in Windows. Maybe the instances where True Image shows 149 it calculates the size the same way as Windows does.

I am still mystified why True Image 2010 doesn't allow me to simply clone a drive and tell the software not to touch the partitions on the new drive. There seemed to be such an option, but it doesn't work. The only clone I have ever been able to produce created proportionately larger partitions plus a lot of unallocated space.

I'm copying a two partition 280GB drive (40+240) to a two partition 500 GB drive which I want to be equal sized partitions. This is terribly frustrating..

Cloning a drive will always ignore any current partition setups, due to the fact it is cloning.

The only way to fit the partitions of the old drive to those of the new would be to make two partition images and then restore these as separate partitions to the new drive.

Colin B wrote:

Cloning a drive will always ignore any current partition setups, due to the fact it is cloning

That makes no sense to me. The software can and does create proportionately larger partitions on the new drive. How does that differ from creating partitions of a user-designated size? The backup and restore process takes ten times as long as well as a lot of manual effort. And that's assuming it goes well the first time.

David,

Think of cloning at it's most basic level - copy the structure of one disk exactly to another.

How does it do this?

1. Deletes or overwrites the partition information in the partition table of meta database of the target disk.

2. copy sector by sector current structure.

TI allows you to resize the current sectors as a bonus.

No matter how you format or partition the target disk prior to cloning, the cloning action will overwrite it.