Thanks for all who sent advice on getting the data from my old 80 GB hard drive to my new 320 GB hard drive. The issue was that I only had room for one internal hard disk in my PC.
As it turned out, the Acronis True-Image program, in addition to copying the data backed up from my 80 GB hard drive to the new disk, also had a facility for selecting the partition size on the new disk. Thus, my data was actually restored to a single 320 GB partition on my new drive. This restore turned out to be very easy with Acronis True-Image 10. Here is how it was done (for those who might want to consider this type of backup): 1. I created a backup on a portable, external, USB drive. 2. I put the new 320 GB drive into my PC 3. I put the Acronis CD into my computer and booted from the CD (since there was no bootable hard drive at this point) 4. I plugged the portable USB drive into my PC's USB port 5. Acronis asked for the drive containing the backup image and the drive to which the restore was to be made. 6. In the program, there was an option to restore the image as an 80 GB partition (as the original drive) or instead to resize the partition on the restore. 7. I hit "go" and in less than an hour I had my system restored onto a single 320 GB partition just like it was before. 8. I was back up and running with a reboot - Done. Thanks again to all who provided feedback. n Pete Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [email protected] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [email protected] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [email protected]
