Need to restore to new, larger hard drive

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So, bought a WD My Book and kept backups on it using WD True Image. One day my laptop hard drive crashes (C:\ and E:\ partitions) and I buy a new, larger WD drive.

How do I get my backup disk image to restore to the new drive and utilize the larger size? No matter what I do, restoring keeps the partitions the same size wasting the additional capacity. Seems like this would be a common scenario yet I could find nothing explaining how to do it.

Gerald

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Hi Gerald,

If you want to do it really easy with practically no sweat, I would recommend Mini-Tools Partition Wizard. It shows you graphically all that you have and then you can move/resize or even extend partition to all that is available. I swear by that Partition Wizard. It just does not do the cloning that True Image does with Win 10. True Image is a horror to use in comparison but my research has only found that you can make True Image do the job, others have failed.

DL

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Thanks, DL. It just seemed that this is such an obvious need that the T-I program would be able to use my backup image to accommodate restoration to my new (WD) hard drive. Makes me wonder if I should be using some other backup program? Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t find the WD T-I program very user friendly, anyway. I was about to upgrade to the paid version (so I could use the program to manage my network backups), but there must be a better program out there? My opinion is that the T-I staff do not test their product by anticipating typical user needs and then clearly documenting the how-to’s. Something is missing between programmer and customer.

Gerald

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