Cloning with Acronis 11

I just recently bought the Samsung HM160HC (160GB) to replace my old 60GB HD in my Dell XPS laptop. I've never actually cloned a drive before but it went smoothly with Acronis True Image 11. Only thing is I think I botched the partitioning of the new drive BEFORE I cloned my old drive onto the new drive. The new, cloned drive is showing a total size of 58.8GB, essentially the same as my old drive. Obviously the Samsung drive has 160GB. I'm just stuck on how to open up the remaining space on the drive, hence why I think I botched the formatting in the beginning. Any help with unlocking this space would be awesome. thanks!

 

Check how many partitions are on your drive, you might just have a 60GB partition and a 100 GB partition

or you might have the stuck the old one in again without noticing =) (just playing)

 

i just went to disk management and its only showing three partitions, 39mb, 4.6gb and 49.81gb.

 

thats odd, did you check what your BIOS said? I know you loose a bit of space after formatting but not 100GBs worth

Also, try something like Partition Magic

Free trial here
http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

 

Yea I downloaded Partition Magic and it's still saying the same sizes. So weird because when I first put the new drive into the HD enclosure and connected it via USB, it read over 140gb (don't remember the exact amount but the max before you loose 10 gb or so).

 

have you tried booting into the bios and seeing what the bios detects? It would be nice to know what laptop you have in particular, 60GB HDs are kinda old im starting to wonder if your bios is preventing you from seeing the full capacity.

 

just booted into bios and it still said 58 gb. i have a dell xps m140. i also went to dells website and downloaded a newer bios and flashed it and restarted and checked bios again and partition magic and its still saying 58gb. its really weird because when i first hooked up the drive into the external enclosure and connected it via usb, it read 149gb in drive manager. it was only after i went through the cloning process with acronis.

 

Try this one. Open source and its free! I saw someone recommend it on a podcast I watch. I've use it a couple of times on my TZ and it works like a charm.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

 

Ok theres your problem you ARE sure you stuck your new hard drive in right (im dead serious this time)

run chkdsk on your hard drive, see if anything pops up if not

do you have another computer? if so hook it up to that and see what it detects

if the bios cant even detect the full capacity there is an issue

oh one more thing can you take a screenshot of what acronis shows now

 

Perhaps you did not select the option for Acronis to resize the partition(s) in proportion to the available disk space.

Does Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management show and empty space on the HDD? If so, you can create another partition.

John

 

yes just checked and the new drive is in

i just ran chkdsk and nothing turned up. everything was 100% and fine.

im going to try this at work tomorrow morning. i'm just gonna bring the enclosure in and hook it up and see what happens. i might also have an IT person look at it because this is just weird.

here is a screenshot of what partition magic shows. i don't have acronis opened at the moment. thanks a lot for your help with this too. i appreciate it. i will post an update tomorrow morning after i hook it up to another computer in the morning.

 

disk manager shows no free space at all. i definitely would have created a new partition if there was free space that's why this is really weird.

i'm thinking i might just pop this HD out and try to reformat it on my work computer to get it back to the 140+gb it should have and then re-run acronis. i can't think of anything else to do at this point.

 

yes a reformat will probably fix the problem or maybe something like this

http://www.killdisk.com/

to wipe unused parts of your HD