Acronis True Image resizing a partition

Discussion in 'Software' started by m79vest36, Aug 14, 2006.

  1. m79vest36

    m79vest36 Corporal

    I have some unallocated space with no drive assigned on my Maxtor external drive. I want to add this unallocated space to my Acronis Backup drive G: on a Maxtor external hard drive because my free space is now too low to hold a complete backup of C:
    How do I do I increase this partition G:?
     
  2. m79vest36

    m79vest36 Corporal

    Perhaps this could help the community if someone else has the same concern regarding extending a partition size on a drive due to low free space as I was experiencing. I'll have to supply my own answer here...this is what I tested by reviewing an XP Pro manual. You can't extend a basic logical partitioned drive. Only a dynamic drive. What I did was to re-format the basic logical partition after moving it's contents to another drive folder. When I created the new partition giving it it's same drive letter the unallocated space was absorbed into the new partition. Therefore, expanding the size. I found how important having Diskeeper Pro 10 for doing the deragments on all drives.
    The MFT (Master File Table) & the Paging File in the new partition can be badly fragmented. This is where the frag shield feature of Diskeeper is important to keep these critical system files in tact. I noticed all of this when defraging all my drives when it called for increasing the size of the MFT. Frag shield can compute a recom number of file records based on the number of exisiting files, amount of free space, and the percentage of the MFT in use. Then, the MFT can be extended to this size so it can grow w/o becoming fragmented. You can rest assured that your defrag process will end up a whole lot more efficient than you may be used to. If anyone here in the community has anything else to add here, I would welcome it. I'm not the expert here...but passing on what I've experienced.
     
  3. Plaphon

    Plaphon Specialist

    i don't think that it is possible to make any operations with your HD using True image, there is another one called Disk Director, with it you can do everything you want with your HD.
     
  4. m79vest36

    m79vest36 Corporal

    Apprec the response Plaphon....I had to come to that conclusion myself. However, here's attach of Acronis User Manual where it describes that it's possible. I couldn't do it using their approach. These images may be to small to view in detail but you can get a good idea.
     
    Last edited: Sep 5, 2006
  5. Plaphon

    Plaphon Specialist

    as you have mentioned you can resize the partition while you are restoring an image, so that means you need to backup everything and then restore this image and change the partition size. otherway if you don't want to loose your data, you have to use 3d party software like as i've written in previous post.
     

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