Resizing partitions upon restoring

[357mag]

I'm going to be restoring a Windows system partition that was made on a 500GB drive to a 150GB drive. When I do the restore operation within Acronis, I will have the ability to resize the partition.

Since I'm gonna restore the partition to a 150GB drive, do I just enter in 150GB in the box? The reason I ask maybe a dumb question like this is because you know how Windows always works with disk management. You may have a 150GB drive but Windows will only say you have maybe 143GB or something. Or on a 500GB drive Windows tells you it's 468GB.

So I was wondering if because of that I should enter in a different figure. I want the partition to fill the drive completely all the way to the end.

So when I restore the backup image representing the Windows system drive I guess I'll type in 150GB as the size of the partition I want.

And when I restore the backup image representing my second hard drive I'll type in 250GB as the size of the partition I want. That drive is a 250GB drive.

[Paul Komski]

You will only be able to restore to 150gig if the amount of data in the original partition was somewhat below 150gig - regardless of the size of the original partition.

Just about all utilities will state a min and max size that you can use; you would obviously use the maximum value for the 150gig drive you intend to use.

If, for any reason, you have unallocated space after the restoration then you could resize that partition with the likes of BiNG (in my sig).

The same comments relate to your second hard drive; just choose the maximum value.