Cloning 60GB drive to 240GB drive creates 120 gb recovery partition with Acronis

[slanensis]

So, I bought the hyperX savage 240GB SSD by kingston. Installed their included cloning software (Acronis) and proceeded with cloning. After the cloning, I get 3 partitions. first a partition with 1.55GB in it, the second one, which is an exact copy of the drive that I am cloning, and the remainder of the GBs goes into a recovery partition.

Am I doing something wrong? Any solutions to this?

[pwn_intended]

You should be able to delete the recovery partition and extend the main partition to the full size.

Normally whenever doing partition work, I say back up your stuff, but given that you still have a working drive with all the data on it, you don't risk to lose anything.

[slanensis]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

You should be able to delete the recovery partition and extend the main partition to the full size.

Normally whenever doing partition work, I say back up your stuff, but given that you still have a working drive with all the data on it, you don't risk to lose anything.

 

I cannot delete the recovery partition. In disk management, I right-click on that partition and all I get is the help button.

Done that already!

[pwn_intended]

Just now, slanensis said:

I cannot delete the recovery partition. In disk management, I right-click on that partition and all I get is the help button.

Done that already!

Windows wont let you do it. Use the acronis software. You may have to boot off a live CD to do it too.

[slanensis]

1 minute ago, pwn_intended said:

Windows wont let you do it. Use the acronis software. You may have to boot off a live CD to do it too.

How do I do that with acronis?

 

[pwn_intended]

3 minutes ago, slanensis said:

How do I do that with acronis?

 

I'm not sure which version of the acronis software you are referring to, but surely if you have figured out how to clone a drive, you should be able to find the resize/delete partition options.

[slanensis]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

I'm not sure which version of the acronis software you are referring to, but surely if you have figured out how to clone a drive, you should be able to find the resize/delete partition options.

 

Ok, thanks a lot, will trty to do so!

[slanensis]

1 hour ago, pwn_intended said:

I'm not sure which version of the acronis software you are referring to, but surely if you have figured out how to clone a drive, you should be able to find the resize/delete partition options.

So, there is good new and bad news. I got the partition mergedd, by a solution I found on the internet. Now, when I try to boot into it, there isnt the SSD I want to boot into, and when ai force boot into the ssd, windows loads up and the screen starts flickering. That is kind of bad. Do you know what I can do?

[Mikensan]

Use clonezilla instead and redo it.

 

I'd also suggest just doing a clean install as this seems like as good as time as any - but if cloning then I'd just use clonezilla.

[slanensis]

51 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

Use clonezilla instead and redo it.

 

I'd also suggest just doing a clean install as this seems like as good as time as any - but if cloning then I'd just use clonezilla.

Too late, I fixed it by doing the cloning through the liveusb version.

 

But I have another problem. My PC now bootloops. I have wasted a good 6 hours on fixing it and I still dont know what to do.

[slanensis]

55 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

Use clonezilla instead and redo it.

 

I'd also suggest just doing a clean install as this seems like as good as time as any - but if cloning then I'd just use clonezilla.

Maybe help me? I am desperate...

[Mikensan]

59 minutes ago, slanensis said:

Maybe help me? I am desperate...

Doesn't really sound like it's fixed if it's boot looping, honestly you could've re-cloned it and had it booting normally in under an hour (probably 20 minutes if it's just 60GB going from SSD > SSD). I wouldn't waste any time fixing a bootloop that is a result of forcing the recovery partition to merge with the primary partition.

[slanensis]

2 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

Doesn't really sound like it's fixed if it's boot looping, honestly you could've re-cloned it and had it booting normally in under an hour (probably 20 minutes if it's just 60GB going from SSD > SSD). I wouldn't waste any time fixing a bootloop that is a result of forcing the recovery partition to merge with the primary partition.

Nevermind, ckearing CMOS fixed it. Thanks for helping!!

[Mikensan]

Now if you did already re-cloned it (instead of messing with the partitions) and it's boot looping, one possibility is if you went into BIOS and changed the AHCI setting. That has to remain the way it was originally unless you plan to re-install windows entirely.

[slanensis]

On 12/26/2016 at 9:21 AM, hotweather said:

I would suggest a clean install.

That will never be possible. too much of a hassle.

I also got a 500GB HDD with all kinds of programs that i will not be able to uninstall, I have done changes to the registry, its just a pain in the ass to do so.