Acronis True Image

[OpalFrost98GT]

I hope someone can help me!

I was imaging a 60gb drive to a new 250GB drive using Acronis True Image.
I think I selected to include the MBR with the Image. Well, Acronis is really really good at what it does because now I have an exact copy of the 60GB drive on the new 250GB drive.

The PROBLEM is that the new 250GB drive is showing as only 60GB!!! The Bios, Windows, Partition Magic, TestDisk, Partition Doctor ...all of these see the drive as only 60GB!!!

Any Ideas how I can recover the 250GB drive structure?

Thanks

 

[Cutthroat]

Acronis partitioned the disk, but only formatted the 60GB likely.

Start>right click computer>manage>disk management. You should see the unformatted space and format it.

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

Thanks for the quick response! THat was the first place I looked. The drive shows up as hard disk 1 with a total capacity of 58.4GB. No unnalocated space.

I'm not sure, but I think Acronis wrote the MBR and partition tables of the old drive to the new drive. There has to be some way to wipe out that information and rebuild the MBR and partition tables. I dont need to save anything on the drive as I have already deleted all the partitions.

Thanks!

 

[Cutthroat]

Try the free trial of Acronis Disk Director, see if that gets you anywhere.

 

[superunknown98]

I know exactly what you did wrong. when cloning in true image it will ask you ( if you pick manual mode) how you want to deal with hard drive sizes. It gives you 3 choices: as is, Proportional, and I forgot the last one as i never use it. Basically you told it to ignore the extra space. You should have picked "proportional".

While there is probably a way to fix it, I would just reimage the 250 the correct way. If you already wiped the 60, you can still image from the 250 to the 60 and then back again.

 

[corkyg]

Superunknown98 is correct. I'll go a step beyond. When moving to a larger drive, always use the CLONE function of TI. And, that is best done by creating and booting to the TI Rescue CDR. (You get all the program and a much better GUI with no reboot requirement. It is OS independent.)

Then, yes choose MANUAL mode, Delete all on the target disk and save all on the source. Then choose PROPORTIONAL to go to a different size drive. It will then porportionally allocate space and partitions.

When done, disconnect the source drive and boot to your new drive. But - you may have trouble going from a 60 to a 250. That is a pretty big leap.

If you have a good bootable image and it works on the new drive with the 60 GB size, you can then fix that to your liking with Acronis Disk Director.

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

Thanks for all of your replies!

I think I found out what happened. It happens to be a Dell Media Direct issue.

Here's an overview of what it is and what you can encounter when cloning a Dell Media Direct Laptop Drive.

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm

Here is a tool to restore the full capacity of any hard Drive.

http://hddguru.com/content/en/...Capacity-Restore-Tool/

Hope this helps some poor souls like me in the future!!