HD Cloning question

[heather]

I am not very tech savvy but thanks to the advice within these forums I was able to clone my old 40 GB hard drive using Acronis 10 onto a new 120 GB hard drive and then swap them. After I booted up with the new 120 GB drive in the T41, I clicked on properties only to find that the computer still thinks I have a 40 GB hard drive installed. According to Disk Management, I have about 80 GB of unallocated space. I think I forgot to manually set the size of the partitions when I made the clone (I don't even really know what that means; I just know I was supposed to have done it).


Is there someway now to fix this without starting over?

Thank you!
Heather

[carbon_unit]

Sure, you need a partition resizer. The commercial program is partition magic. The free program is gparted. Take your pick, they both work.
They both look about the same. You start one of them up, they show the partitions, you stretch the 40 gb partition out to fill the 120 gb disc, save your changes and close. When you reboot you are done.