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1. #ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE HD NOT WORKING FROM BIG TO SMALL MANUAL#
2. #ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE HD NOT WORKING FROM BIG TO SMALL OFFLINE#

I don't want to hear any more stories about how you haven't bought an external enclosure for your old 30GB drive yet and are trying to swim uphill using your external 3.5" Maxtor drive as an intermediate drive. Worst case you'll only waste a couple of GB.įollow my suggestions and you'll be home free.

#ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE HD NOT WORKING FROM BIG TO SMALL MANUAL#

If you don't want to mess with the manual resizing, just let TrueImage 8 do the auto resizing for you. Then when you are in TrueImage 8 Clone Disk, select manual partitioning and adjust the new 100GB partition layout so you duplicate the size of the hidden partitions and use the balance of unallocated space for the new C partition. They don't need to get any bigger than they are on the 30GB drive.įirst, view the existing size of the two hidden small partitions on your 30GB drive using XP's Disk Management. I like the manual feature because it doesn't waste any space on the two hidden partitions. When you clone the small 30GB drive to the big 100GB drive TrueImage 8 gives you the option of either automatic proportional resizing of the three partitions or manual resizing. You can't do what you want to do until you have a suitable external USB2 enclosure for your 30GB drive. Once done, Acronis could initiate the cloning process. I had to therefore disable Bitlocker and decrypt my drives prior to cloning, which took a considerable amount of time.

#ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE HD NOT WORKING FROM BIG TO SMALL OFFLINE#

I use the CompUSA 2.5" enclosure, $19.95, works great. Acronis True Image will not clone Bitlocker-encrypted partitions, either online, or offline (booting from an Acronis boot disk or USB). If you don't have an external USB2 enclosure for the 30GB hard drive BUY ONE NOW. Don't reformat it with XP's Disk Manager because it won't erase the small hidden diagnostics partition. Cloning lets you resize your partitions for the larger drive (see below).ģ) Reboot and disconnect the old 30GB drive or reformat it with TrueImage 8's Add New Disk feature so you can use it for storage. >If you could use the advanced media creation tool and build WinRE. Just clone directly from the 30GB drive which I assume you have mounted in an external USB2 enclosure. Yes, it is probably the cause of the problem, that the Acronis rescue DVD or USB bootable disk created via Acronis Survival Kit option do not contain all needed drivers, so that after boot, the USB disk, or even the HDD main C disk is not recognized. If you didn't change the old drive ignore step 1.Ģ) Clone the old 30GB drive to the new 100GB drive. When it restored the 30GB image it created a single 30GB partition and ignored the additional 70GB.ġ) Restore the 30GB image to the old 30GB drive if you already erased or altered the old 30GB drive. TrueImage8 restored the 30GB image to the 100GB drive.