Acronis True Image 9.0?

[Perryg114]

I am trying to put a larger Hard drive in my laptop and have downloaded a trial version of acronis true image 9.0. It works pretty well compared to Systemworks 2003 that just made my hard drive unbootable (thanks symantec). Anyway, I am backing up to a USB hard drive since installing two drives in a laptop is not something I know how to do. I was able to back up the old drive 20GB and restore it to the new drive 80GB but the new drive is partitioned to 20G just like the old one. The acronis web sight sorta dances around the issue of whether the pay version will allow you to restore to a larger drive and increase the partition size to that of the larger drive. I think they want you to but their disk director software as well. I don't think I will be buying two software packages to do what one should do. Anyway, how do I increase the partition size to that of the new hard drive without erasing my restored data. I won't buy from Symantec again.

Perry

 

[corkyg]

All TrueImage versions since 6 will clone a drive proportionally. IOW, when going to a larger drive - use the CLONE function and Manually. Then select PROPORTIONAL and the new drive will get a proportional share of all partitions based on a ratio of old size to new. If you clone "as is" the partitions will stay at their original size and you will have space on the new drive that is unallocated.

 

[Zepper]

The software that you can download free from the drive manufacturer can often do what you need to do. Or any decent partitioning program will be able to resize a partition with data in place. Are both drives the same brand?

Some trial copies are crippled in some way. Perhaps the trial of Acronis can't do the resizing.

.bh.