Partition Sizing When Cloning

I bought TI8.0 to clone my 60 gig HD onto a 120 gig HD with one 120gig partition. I've tried to do it 4 times (auto and manual with each of the three options). My result: 2 55 gig partitions.

Screen shot: TI View of drives

Tech support tells me to read page 39 of the user guide -- I have (several times).

OS: W2K Pro; File System: NTFS.

I've tried to see what would happen with the DM Suite (demo) -- same problem. (I know that the demo will not make changes -- it won't even show simulated changes.)

Any ideas?

Thanks. John

 

Hello John,

Thank you for choosing Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

When you clone the drive it doesn't matter what partitions you have on the destination drive because Acronis True image will delete them anyway. You cannot change the number of partitions during the cloning but you are able to resize partitions that will be created on the destination hard disk. In "Auto" mode the space will be distributed proportionally to those on the source hard disk. "Manual" mode allows you to resize partitions in the way you need (providing the size of a particular partition is not less than the size of the data stored on it).

Thank you.
--
Ilya Toytman

 

Illya,

Thank you for your reply. You told me what the program should do -- not what it has done. Is there any way for me to have one 120 gig partition on the destination drive?

Also, you can see (I hope) from the screen shot that there is a red circle with a white "X" in the upper left corner of the "new" drive. What does this mean?

Thanks.

John

 

How many partitions exist on the original 60gig drive? Is it just one 60gig partition or is it multiple partitions?

 

Hi JimmyTop

Just one partition.

John