Drive Image will not expand

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What do you mean: "The destination partitons ranged from 30% to 80%
bigger
than source."
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What I mean is, I started with 5 virtual drives, i.e. 5 partitions.
What I want is the same on the destination drive, only average 50% bigger
each.
The destination drive is formatted to NTFS @4k clusters, exactly what I
expect it to be.
The old drive is FAT32.

Explain to me how I am going to end up with c,d,e,f,g on the new drive that
are approx. 50% larger if I start with an unformatted drive?
It's not possible and makes no sense at all.
As soon as it expands the first partition to the full drive size, there is
no place for d,e,f &g.
Yeah, the issue of fat32 vs. ntfs is a different issue altogether, the
software absolutely should still deal with it without a problem.
People all the time have different formats for thier drives.


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?
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No I can't confirm this because after 4 days, my drives are the way I want
them to be and I'm not touching them.
I have some old smaller drives to play with, but no more time or patience
for DI.

Tom
 
What I mean is, I started with 5 virtual drives, i.e. 5 partitions.
What I want is the same on the destination drive, only average 50% bigger each.
Fine.

The destination drive is formatted to NTFS @4k clusters,
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Just one partition presumably. Thats where you are stuffing up.
exactly what I expect it to be.
The old drive is FAT32.
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Explain to me how I am going to end up with c,d,e,f,g on the new drive
that are approx. 50% larger if I start with an unformatted drive?
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There is only one way to do that. clone each of the original
partitions to the new drive, one at a time, and specify the new
size of each one as the clone is specified. AND you have to
initially clone to FAT32 format and then convert each one too.

There is no way to specify the size of the new partitions if you clone
the entire original drive and all its partitions, as you have discovered.
It's not possible and makes no sense at all.
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Fraid so.
As soon as it expands the first partition to the
full drive size, there is no place for d,e,f &g.
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So you only expand it to the size you want it to be, stupid.
Yeah, the issue of fat32 vs. ntfs is a different issue altogether,
the software absolutely should still deal with it without a problem.
Yep.

People all the time have different formats for thier drives.
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Sure. But you're attempting to clone and convert in one step.
No I can't confirm this because after 4 days, my drives
are the way I want them to be and I'm not touching them.
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I have some old smaller drives to play
with, but no more time or patience for DI.
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No wonder you arent capable of working out how to do it yourself.

Completely hopeless.
 
Joep said:
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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You don't get it, I need the new partitions to be the freaking size " I "
want, not what their useless tool wants them to be.
 
Joep said:
The new ones? Resizing is done 'on the fly', the new drive doesn't need to
be partitioned in the first place.

Besides, if you let the tool choose it's partitons, then it reall isn';t
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expanding anything except maybe on partition, the first or last.
Just a guess.
Either way, the tool should expand top what partition exists.
 
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