Using Acronis

I am trying to use Acronis Home 2009 to clone my hard drive onto my new drive but i keep getting two lots of unallocated space, and i can't seem to understand why.No matter what i try.I should point out that this is my first time trying to do this and using Acronis could someone give me some pointers as to what i may be doing wrong...

 

I don't have 2009, but if it is the same as v10 there is an option to manually allocate the partitions that you need to do.

 

thanks for the reply i have tryed the manual way but same problem.i no its something im doing wrong but for the life of me i just can't see what it is

 

This works pretty good too and its free..
Macrium Reflect
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

 

Home version is the free version correct?

The free version has those features removed.... sry.

 

I use the free and does great for me, I also used true image and most of the rest.

 

Free version works great, it just doesn't allow splitting of the files.

 

I don't see how you can have 2 areas of unallocated space. When I have cloned to a larger hard drive, keeping the partitions the same size, I only have one area of unallocated space at the end of the drive. Then I just expand the data partition to fill the remaining space using disk management.

 

when i use Acronis it makes my PQSERVICE partition 47gb and when i change the size to 11.71 to match the original size thats when i get a chunk of unallocated space and i just cant seem to get rid of it,

 

When setting up the process to clone the drive, there should be an option to keep the partitions the same size and not expand them to fill in the extra space on the larger hard drive.