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If you want to stick with disk management for partitioning, the only thing it will let you is extend your C partition into the unallocated space.
If you want to stick with disk management for partitioning, the only thing it will let you is extend your C partition into the unallocated space.
That happens when you place an image into a partition that is larger than the original partition from which the image came. Macrium creates the footprint of the originating partition. You should be able to add that space with C - but that won't work with Disk Management. Use the bootable CD of Partition Wizard for that operation.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html (last box on webpage)
http://www.partitionwizard.com/video...partition.html
Ok guys I will have a go tomorrow
Thanks
Actually one of my PCs is an old ACER that split the 1TB HDD with OS and data partitions each close to 500GB. Although I retained the recover partition I only used it once more as an experiment. A large OS partition is a waste IMO. Your image sizes become unmanageable. I repartitioned to give the OS ~200GB and the rest as a data partition. I have relied solely on system imaging plus separate backup for the data partition.
My OS partitions are in the 30 to 50GB size. All user data is on the spinner - but not a single OS folder was moved.
200GB for an OS partition I admit is generous but on a 1TB HDD it's not much. I run at 48GB at the moment which includes some data - my word and excel spreadsheets plus some photos. For me ~100GB is about right to give me a margin. This also fits the size of reasonably priced SSDs.
I guess I am frugal. I come from the 60GB SSD generation. My biggest internal SSD is 90GB - and that is on a one drive laptop. My big SSDs are externals.