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| 807340 | 2009-09-06 23:30:00 | Is it OK to clone a 150GB (with OS) disk to a larger 500GB disk using Acronis True Image? If it is OK, the remaining 350GB will be treated as unallocated disk space? | bk T (215) | ||
| 807341 | 2009-09-06 23:57:00 | Yep, it will resize to the new capacity. Unless you specify it not to. | pctek (84) | ||
| 807342 | 2009-09-07 00:43:00 | :thumbs: If you have any issues with the partition sizing Easeus partition manager or Gparted will sort it out after the clone no hassles. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 807343 | 2009-09-07 02:49:00 | At present, I've got the OS in C: and the Recovery partition on this 150GB HDD. After cloning this drive to my new 500GB drive, and l repartitioned the new drive (probably D: & E:) will it affect the Recovery process? I afraid the recovery process may not be able find the Recovery files as there are more partitions now. It's a NEC desktop machine. Has anyone done this before? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 807344 | 2009-09-07 03:00:00 | It will be fine, I do this exact thing all the time and haven't had any issues with it yet. Occasionally the recovery partition loses it's *example here* (press F11 to enter recovery mode) message on start up, but firing up gparted and marking the recovery partition as *boot* normally sorts out that issue. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 807345 | 2009-09-07 04:58:00 | And here was me thinking that a CD recovery disk will or could put the computer back to the day it was first delivered. Some years back I repartitioned a hard drive and fortunately took all data off first. My advice would be to save all data before you try it. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 807346 | 2009-09-07 08:31:00 | Thanks folks for all the inputs. :thanks | bk T (215) | ||
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