Cloning Question!

[N1SQB]

I had a 160 GB hard drive on my laptop. I backed up my entire system onto an external drive. I installed a new WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB drive and sent the back up image into the new drive. When everything came back up, my C drive still showed the same amount of HD space as my old one. Like the old one was still inside. I called WD and they told me that this is because I used acronis. The new HD will only allow you to have the same image as the old C drive. The remainder of the space on the new HD will only be available as a separate partition drive (D). Why is that? I remember using ghost for example in the past and once you rebooted, everything was still there just with more space on a new HD. I hate having partition drives. Anything I can do?

Manny

 

[SignalSeeker]

What OS are you using?

 

[fineshot1]

I have used acronis and never had that issue before.

I cloned all the os & app data from an 8gig ss drive to a 16 gig ss drive
and had all the extra space - no problem.

 

[N1SQB]

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. It is so weird! I have never had this happen to me. The old drive was a 160. Now, I have drive C as a 160GB drive and then drive D with the remainder of the 500Gigs as a separate partition drive. SO I do have all the space but in 2 separate drives. I HATE this set up. I would have to do a completely new install to get it all as 1 drive according WD support. Of cource the guy could barely speak english so he may not have understood my problem in it's entirety. Not trying to be prejudice here mind you but english was DEFINITELY not his primary language. That made things even worse.

Manny

 

[slicerwizard]

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate.

Control Panel / Create and format hard disk partitions / Disk Management / Extend Volume

Or you could Google resize partition.

 

[SignalSeeker]

This could help;
Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

Justin

 

[prsmith]

Just download gparted GParted -- About and make a bootable cd and it will resize the disks for you.

Easy to use and it is free open source.

I use it all the time to expand disks on virtual servers.

 

[fineshot1]

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. It is so weird! I have never had this happen to me. The old drive was a 160. Now, I have drive C as a 160GB drive and then drive D with the remainder of the 500Gigs as a separate partition drive. SO I do have all the space but in 2 separate drives. I HATE this set up. I would have to do a completely new install to get it all as 1 drive according WD support. Of cource the guy could barely speak english so he may not have understood my problem in it's entirety. Not trying to be prejudice here mind you but english was DEFINITELY not his primary language. That made things even worse.

Manny

I no longer have the pc and it was quite some time ago but i believe during
the cloning procedure there was a point at which you had to specify exactly
how you wanted the cloning process to configure the drive - a sort of Y in
the road so to speak. You may have taken the wrong branch in the road.

 

[poltergeisty]

You should be able to use EASEUS Partition Master to attach the two partitions .

EASEUS FREE Partition Manager Software. Free Partition Magic alternative for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008. Hard Drive partition software.

Despite having a copy hard drive ability, I use this: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Advanced Edition - Free Download

YouTube - How To Partition / Resize Your Hard Drive - EASEUS Partition Master

I've used Macrium Reflect too. Macrium Reflect Backup and Hard Disk Imaging for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Server 2003/2008

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download

May need to check your services and make sure the Volume Shadow copy Service is on.

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

 

[poltergeisty]

RAID 1 ftw!

 

[N1SQB]

I'm going to give all the suggestions a try and see which one works. Thanks a lot guys!

Manny

 

[N1SQB]

I no longer have the pc and it was quite some time ago but i believe during
the cloning procedure there was a point at which you had to specify exactly
how you wanted the cloning process to configure the drive - a sort of Y in
the road so to speak. You may have taken the wrong branch in the road.

I never saw that during the cloning process!

Manny