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Partition problem
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 3:17 am
Posted by Ben (2 messages posted)

I took an image of both C and D paritions (both NTFS) and stored them on a USB drive, also formatted with NTFS.
I then installed two new 500GB drives, created a mirror array, and partitioned the drive using GParted to have two NTFS partitions, both around 250GB.
I then restored the two images to the new larger partitions, and rebooted.
Windows booted fine, however there is a problem. The C and D Drives are reported to be the old sizes (12GB and 137GB respectively). If I look in Disk Management, the two partitions show as being the new, larger sizes, but the actual drives that Windows uses are still the small ones.
Is there anyway to rectify this?
A picture probably describes the problem better.
Many thanks.

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re: Partition problem
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 7:33 am
Posted by Ben (2 messages posted)

Just to say that I was able to solve this using Acronis Disk Director 10 (Server Edition). I resized the partitions by a small amount using it, and when the server rebooted, the C and D drives were reported to be the same size as the partitions. Not a cheap solution, but it worked.

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re: Partition problem
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Posted by appleoddity (2369 messages posted)

What program did you use to image the drives? Acronis TrueImage does this very, very well and will automatically resize the partitions to fit the new drive. If you image the drive, the new drive will always have partitions that are the same size as the old drive unless the software specifically makes provision to resize them. It appears that whatever you used to image the drive did not do this, or did not do it properly.

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