Acronis won't let me NOT clone hidden recovery partition?

[Eug]

I have Acronis True Image HD which came with my previous Kingston SSD.

I just bought a 120 GB Intel 330 SSD for my dual-core Atom machine and I am in the process of cloning it.

However, Acronis (or at least this version of it) won't let me clone just one partition. I have to clone all the partitions it seems. Is this normal?

There are three partitions:

1) Acer's hidden recovery partition (19 GB)
2) Some other reserved partition (0.1 GB)
3) Main Windows 7 partition (130 GB)

Both in automatic clone and manual clone modes I must copy all three partitions over. So right now it's cloning as follows:

1) 14 GB
2) 0.07 GB
3) 97 GB

BTW, for that 14 GB partition, Acronis says the minimum size is about 10 GB, which suggests to me that there is only 10 GB of data there.

I'd like to regain that 14 GB partition by deleting the recovery data. How best to do that? Can it be done within Acronis?

 

[Eug]

Alternatively, if I do keep the recovery partition, can I reduce it to its minimum size, or must there be some extra space there? If there needs to be extra space, how much? Right now there would only be about 3.x GB free with the new partition layout.

 

[kbp]

Copy recovery partition to a USB stick then blow it away.
Then clone although I would personally do a clean install.

 

[Coup27]

why do you want to keep the recovery partition? OEM pre-loads are a bloatfest.

 

[tweakboy]

I have Acronis True Image HD which came with my previous Kingston SSD.

I just bought a 120 GB Intel 330 SSD for my dual-core Atom machine and I am in the process of cloning it.

However, Acronis (or at least this version of it) won't let me clone just one partition. I have to clone all the partitions it seems. Is this normal?

There are three partitions:

1) Acer's hidden recovery partition (19 GB)
2) Some other reserved partition (0.1 GB)
3) Main Windows 7 partition (130 GB)

Both in automatic clone and manual clone modes I must copy all three partitions over. So right now it's cloning as follows:

1) 14 GB
2) 0.07 GB
3) 97 GB

BTW, for that 14 GB partition, Acronis says the minimum size is about 10 GB, which suggests to me that there is only 10 GB of data there.

I'd like to regain that 14 GB partition by deleting the recovery data. How best to do that? Can it be done within Acronis?

Use Paragon not acronis. gl

 

[boochi]

You need to use Partition Backup and not Clone. Clone with Acronis is a whole disk operation unless the free packaged version is different from the retail software.

 

[Eug]

Yeah, the Acer recovery partition is a bloated mess, but then again it has the original Windows install on it. But I've just realized I have recovery DVDs made from it already so I don't need it.

So I'm looking at my software and it seems to do a Backup partition it has to go to a third intermediary drive as an image file and then I have to restore it from the image file to the SSD. Is that correct?

However, I already have everything cloned over now already. Can I just kill those two extra partitions and have them merged into the main partition somehow?

 

[Eug]

Bah. I hate you Acer.

Disk Management won't let me delete the volume.

So I tried diskpart through an elevated command prompt. However, with that I can't delete it, and I can't unhide it either. If I try "attributes volume clear hidden" with the selected volume it just gives me an error. If I try "delete volume" while it's hidden then diskpart crashes.

I give up. I'm not going to waste any more time on this now.

 

[tweakboy]

I have Acronis True Image HD which came with my previous Kingston SSD.

I just bought a 120 GB Intel 330 SSD for my dual-core Atom machine and I am in the process of cloning it.

However, Acronis (or at least this version of it) won't let me clone just one partition. I have to clone all the partitions it seems. Is this normal?

There are three partitions:

1) Acer's hidden recovery partition (19 GB)
2) Some other reserved partition (0.1 GB)
3) Main Windows 7 partition (130 GB)

Both in automatic clone and manual clone modes I must copy all three partitions over. So right now it's cloning as follows:

1) 14 GB
2) 0.07 GB
3) 97 GB

BTW, for that 14 GB partition, Acronis says the minimum size is about 10 GB, which suggests to me that there is only 10 GB of data there.

I'd like to regain that 14 GB partition by deleting the recovery data. How best to do that? Can it be done within Acronis?

Try Paragon software. gl

 

[Dark Shroud]

why do you want to keep the recovery partition? OEM pre-loads are a bloatfest.

You always make a back-up of the default OEM install of laptops even if it is a "bloatfest." This is for warranty or resale reasons.

If you want to resell the device you'll want that to protect yourself & the person you're selling to. If you need to get warranty service there is a good chance you might need to restore the OEM install to protect your warranty.