one partition restore from small old to large new hard drive.

[ramesh19]

hello,
I replaced my old 40Gb hard drive for my windows xp prof dell laptop with Hitachi 160Gb hard drive.

I downloaded grover PDF and thought I followed it.
Grover has 3 partitions model.
I do not know how to separate the operating system or data files etc so wanted to leave the whole drive as single partition.

question: 1) is it recommended to have more than 1 partition or is it ok to have only one partition.
2). when I did this, new drive showing only 38gb the rest 112 Gb is unallocated.
How to restore that unallocated space. thanks.
I restored the image from old drive using acronis v10.


I have Disk director v10. does this help? no need to use this.

disk management snap:

[K0LO]

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ramesh19:

If you have Acronis Disk Director then just boot your PC from the recovery CD and start DD (safe mode is faster starting up). Right-click on the existing C: partition and choose "Resize". Drag the slider to the right until the partition fills the disk. Commit your change and reboot into Windows.

[ramesh19]

hi there,
I got DD yesterday and not familiar with it. But i did try it this morning before i saw your post.
I simply used DD in normal way. selected Increase free space operation and then committed. It did it in less than a minute. Is this right or something wrong?

I am actually puzzled when you say: boot your pc through recovery CD. ( I assume you are talking about true image). why we need that anyway?

thanks. I am posting new disk management snap:

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/rogerpol/2008-05-30_134737.jpg

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If you have Acronis Disk Director then just boot your PC from the recovery CD and start DD (safe mode is faster starting up). Right-click on the existing C: partition and choose "Resize". Drag the slider to the right until the partition fills the disk. Commit your change and reboot into Windows." }-

[K0LO]

ramesh19:

No, you didn't do anything wrong. You're one of the lucky ones whose PC hardware is fully supported by the recovery environment of DD.

Usually, operations that affect the partition that Windows is running from are best done from the recovery CD. What will sometimes happen is that DD will give all indications that it is performing the operation, but when it's finished, nothing is changed. In your case it did work, so you're fine.

Since you have both TI and DD, you should use the Bootable Media Builder application (on the Tools menu) to make a recovery CD that contains both TI and DD on the disk. It may come in handy for recovery if your disk fails some day.

[ramesh19]

ok. thank you.
again if I used TI recovery CD. from here how to access DD.

you mean we should try backup and then when we see explorer type window, access DD from there?

sorry i didn't get it completely for future reference.

[MudCrab]

When you have both TI and DD installed and use the Media Builder program to create a new Rescue CD, you can select which programs you want to include.

It's normally best to include both the Full and Safe Mode versions of TI and DD on the CD. When you boot the CD, the programs will be displayed in a menu so you can select which program you want to run.