Drive Image will not expand

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Tom

I'm about done with this product.
It is supposed to copy and image an old smaller drive to a newer drive,
while expanding to the new larger drive size.
Well, it doesn't and I've spent three days trying, along with getting no
response from tech support!

It resizes the new larger and formatted drive to the old drive size, wasting
half the space.
Someone know the solution to this before I tell them what to do with their
software?

Thanks,
Tom
 
I'm about done with this product.
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I dont expect to see reports of Symantec suits pouring from
their windows like lemmings at that news any time soon.
It is supposed to copy and image an old smaller drive to
a newer drive, while expanding to the new larger drive size.
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Well, it doesn't and I've spent three days trying,
along with getting no response from tech support!
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Hardly surprising at this time of year.
It resizes the new larger and formatted drive
to the old drive size, wasting half the space.
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Someone know the solution to this
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Have you tried just expanding that too small
partition into the free space after that ?
 
Tom said:
I'm about done with this product.
It is supposed to copy and image an old smaller drive to a newer drive,
while expanding to the new larger drive size.
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What file system? What size? ETC!!!! Please post with appropriate
information (by the way: with the risk of making a fool of yourself)
 
Joep said:
What file system? What size? ETC!!!! Please post with appropriate
information (by the way: with the risk of making a fool of yourself)
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Apparently 'fool', it doesn't matter becuase I've tried everything for three
days and it will not upsize.

FAT32 and NTFS both, with various size drives and partitions, all below
125Gig and in Windows XP.
DI 7.0 and 7.01
 
Apparently 'fool', it doesn't matter becuase I've tried everything for
three
days and it will not upsize.
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I am sorry about that! Sometimes people want to resize a FAT16 partition > 2
Gb which they can't.
FAT32 and NTFS both, with various size drives and partitions, all below
125Gig and in Windows XP.
DI 7.0 and 7.01
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One thing that can prevent a resize is the partitions being to full. How
full are they?
 
Joep said:
I am sorry about that! Sometimes people want to resize a FAT16 partition > 2
Gb which they can't.


One thing that can prevent a resize is the partitions being to full. How
full are they?
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The old ones or the new ones?
The old partitions are 14 Gig each and have anywhere from 1.5 Gig to 8 Gig
free.
The new partitions are empty, of course.

Symantic bought PowerQuest and they are not an swering support email.
I won't have time to deal with thsi when I'm back to work Monday.
They want $90/support call on the phone, which is total BS.
Their product so far has not done anything it is supposed to.
Tom
 
Tom said:
The old ones or the new ones?
The old partitions are 14 Gig each and have anywhere from 1.5 Gig to 8 Gig
free.
The new partitions are empty, of course.

Symantic bought PowerQuest and they are not an swering support email.
I won't have time to deal with thsi when I'm back to work Monday.
They want $90/support call on the phone, which is total BS.
Their product so far has not done anything it is supposed to.
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Or you havent got a clue about what you are doing, as usual.
 
I got lucky with the new C because I had already made it an active
partition.

I also had to manually restire all of the protected/in use winblows files
with Drive Image.

So, buy your copy of Drive Image today and get your new hard drive files
installed in four days...

I will get my $$ back from them.
 
Tom said:
I got lucky with the new C because I had already made it an active
partition.

I also had to manually restire all of the protected/in use winblows files
with Drive Image.

So, buy your copy of Drive Image today and get your new hard drive files
installed in four days...

I will get my $$ back from them.
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No, I had to go back and make it active...after I had wrapped up drives and
case, etc. :(

The bright side is, now clusters are 4k and benchmarks are faster than the
FAT32 :)
 
The new ones? Resizing is done 'on the fly', the new drive doesn't
need to be partitioned in the first place.
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All drives are partitioned. There may be only one partition, but it is
still a partition. But he was referring to the old ones.
 
You can expand an NTFS partition by XP means. Disk Manager (in Computer
Management) will allow you that.
 
Alexander Grigoriev said:
You can expand an NTFS partition by XP means. Disk Manager (in Computer
Management) will allow you that.
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I explored every WinXP option possible and could not see any way to fix
this.
It showed up in disk manager as the correct size, but not in device manager
or as accessible drive space.
 
You can expand an NTFS partition by XP means. Disk Manager (in Computer
Management) will allow you that.
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Nope. Not unless you make the disk dynamic, and then you can't expand the
system drive.
 
I explored every WinXP option possible and could not see any way to fix
this.
It showed up in disk manager as the correct size, but not in device manager
or as accessible drive space.
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Partition Magic is the PowerQuest tool used to resize partitions. Did you
get that along with Drive Image? You could also use other partition tools
like Partition Commander or BootitNG (fully working trial version at
www.bootitng.com)
 
Partition Magic is the PowerQuest tool used to resize partitions. Did you
get that along with Drive Image? You could also use other partition tools
like Partition Commander or BootitNG (fully working trial version at
www.bootitng.com)
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No, but had their technical support existed at all, I would have inssisted
they give that to me to fix their broken Drive Image crap.

It's a done deal now as far as my new drive goes.
Four days to correctly copy old drive to new drive.
In Win98, this process would take a couple of hours max.

I still want software to keep my system backed up, but the current Drive
Image obviosly can only image and restroe drives of the exact same saize,
etc.
That is not what their product says it can do and I will get a resolution,
compensation of some sort and/or my money back from Symantic (bought
PowerQuest).
 
No, but had their technical support existed at all, I would have
inssisted they give that to me to fix their broken Drive Image crap.
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It's a done deal now as far as my new drive goes.
Four days to correctly copy old drive to new drive.
In Win98, this process would take a couple of hours max.
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I did it fine with XP in a hell of a lot less than that.
I still want software to keep my system backed up,
but the current Drive Image obviosly can only image
and restroe drives of the exact same saize, etc.
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That is not what their product says it can do and I will
get a resolution, compensation of some sort and/or my
money back from Symantic (bought PowerQuest).
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Or your nose rubbed in how to do it.
 
I still want software to keep my system backed up, but the current Drive
Image obviosly can only image and restroe drives of the exact same saize,
etc.
That is not what their product says it can do and I will get a resolution,
compensation of some sort and/or my money back from Symantic (bought
PowerQuest).
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FWIW, I've used Drive Image on and off for the past 4-5 years - starting
with Win98, Win2000 and WinXP. It has always been successful in expanding a
smaller partition into a larger unallocated space [it, of course, does not
copy an image - or partition - into an existing partition].

Unless there's some unusual hardware issue in your set up, you're probably
doing something incorrectly.

Earlier, someone asked about specifics. It would help if you gave a
specific example that you've tried. I.e., size of partition that the image
was taken from, size of unallocated space into which you're trying to copy
the image.
 
FWIW, I've used Drive Image on and off for the past 4-5 years - starting
with Win98, Win2000 and WinXP. It has always been successful in expanding a
smaller partition into a larger unallocated space [it, of course, does not
copy an image - or partition - into an existing partition].

Unless there's some unusual hardware issue in your set up, you're probably
doing something incorrectly.

Earlier, someone asked about specifics. It would help if you gave a
specific example that you've tried. I.e., size of partition that the image
was taken from, size of unallocated space into which you're trying to copy
the image.
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and maybe their earlier versions didn't have this bug.
I have build severl thousand systems in my life and now I design ASICs for
said systems, so I know what I'm doing and no, I did nothing wrong.
There isn't much you can do with their SW period.


Anyway, I already posted details once.
I had an 80 gig drive with one active and one extended, logical into 4 more
partitions, five partitions total.
Almost equally divided on each drive, the new one 120 gig.

About as simple as you can get.

After both copying and imaging, the results were the same.
From Windows, it wouldn't even let me select the expand option.
From the PQRE, it allowed me to delete the drive and expand, but after
restore and boot up, it didn't actually expand.
The destination partitons ranged from 30% to 80% bigger than source.
 
Tom said:
FWIW, I've used Drive Image on and off for the past 4-5 years - starting
with Win98, Win2000 and WinXP. It has always been successful in
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expanding
a
smaller partition into a larger unallocated space [it, of course, does not
copy an image - or partition - into an existing partition].

Unless there's some unusual hardware issue in your set up, you're probably
doing something incorrectly.

Earlier, someone asked about specifics. It would help if you gave a
specific example that you've tried. I.e., size of partition that the image
was taken from, size of unallocated space into which you're trying to copy
the image.
Click to expand...

and maybe their earlier versions didn't have this bug.
I have build severl thousand systems in my life and now I design ASICs for
said systems, so I know what I'm doing and no, I did nothing wrong.
There isn't much you can do with their SW period.


Anyway, I already posted details once.
I had an 80 gig drive with one active and one extended, logical into 4 more
partitions, five partitions total.
Almost equally divided on each drive, the new one 120 gig.

About as simple as you can get.

After both copying and imaging, the results were the same.
From Windows, it wouldn't even let me select the expand option.
From the PQRE, it allowed me to delete the drive and expand, but after
restore and boot up, it didn't actually expand.
The destination partitons ranged from 30% to 80% bigger than source.
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What do you mean: "The destination partitons ranged from 30% to 80% bigger
than source."

There should be NO partitions on the destination drive. The whole drive
should be unallocated - i.e., no partitions. Can you confirm that you have
no partition on the destination drive before you start restoring the
image/copying?

Thanks
 
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