Acronis Msg. : Disk Not Found.......

[Macflo]

Hello Guys;

I'm trying to upgrade my hdd from 30gb to a Samsung 160gb pata of course. I ran Acronis v. 11 and after all the screens on partitioning, etc., the program starts the first reboot.
After the computer starts, post, etc., the message is : "analyzing partitions" then, after few seconds the message is : DISK NOT FOUND...press any key to reboot.

I did upgrade the Bios and everything looks normal, I have been changing different boot sequences but nothing work. I need to say that the disk is visible in the bios program and windows also thru disk management. This is my third experience using acronis but the first I get an error message. Please help me with some ideas.

Ibm thinkpad r50e, 1.5 g ram, 1.6 g cpu. win xp pro sp2.

Thank you so much.
Mac

[RealBlackStuff]

I normally take an image of the old disk, using a USB enclosure and my PC.
Then restore that image onto the new HD, again using the USB enclosure. Never a problem!

[Macflo]

Thanks for your response. Yes I have the usb enclosure but I don't know how to proceed to make the image of the "old disk" since this is installed into the laptop and working, should I :

1.- Make an image of the old disk in a file into the same old disk?.
2.- Restore this image to the new disk into the usb enclosure?

I will appreciate your advice on proper steps on this procedure.

Thanks again,
Mac

[carbon_unit]

Make the Acronis bootable media and work from it.
Boot to the cd, select backup and put the image on the external drive, shut down, swap in the new drive , boot to the cd, restore the image from the external drive to the new drive.

[Macflo]

Thank you guys. I did the image as you suggested above and restored to the new drive. I swap the drives and the new hdd boot without any problem. The sad part of the story is that the program copied the old drive as is. Now my 160 gb samsung is a 30 gb drive.

I could not find the option to resize the partitions to use the whole space while doing the process, any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Mac

[Harryc]

Run gparted and resize the partition. It is a downloadable .iso. Burn it as an image.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=271779

[carbon_unit]

There is a way to resize the partitions when using Acronis but it is far from easy(read frustrating). I usually use gparted or parted magic to resize after cloning. It is much easier to do it this way.

[Macflo]

Thanks to all of you guys. I used gparted and create a partition in the unallocated part (more than 110 gb), now my disk worth the upgrade.
Keep the good work please.
Mac

[RealBlackStuff]

For just creating the partition as you did, you could have used the Windows built-in Disk Management.
Click Start/Run, type in diskmgmt.msc and click OK. By right-clicking on the unused/free space ther, you are given the option to create a new partition and format it.
No downloads necessary.

[carbon_unit]

True! Gparted could have resized your c: partition to fill the entire unallocated space but you are OK with a separate partition too. Maybe you should relocate your"My Documents" folder there to automatically make use of the new partition.