I backed up my 40 GB internal hard drive using Iomega's 80 GB USB 2.0 Silver Edition Desktop Hard Drive and the software it came with, Automatic Backup Pro (ABP) . I used ABP to back up the entire drive, creating an image of the drive, rather than backing up data files. When my internal hard drive crashed, I replaced it with a new hard drive and used ABP to restore the contents of the old drive onto the new drive. It worked great - within 20 minutes of installing the new drive in the PC, ABP had restored the entire contents of the old drive to the new drive and I was up and running, with one catch - the new drive is 160 GB, but because the image created by ABP was of a 40 GB drive, the new drive thinks it is also only 40 GB. The Windows XP utility "Disk Management" tells me that I have a 37.27 GB NTFS healthy partition, and 111.78 GB is unallocated.
What can I do to convince the new drive it is 160 GB? Will Partition Magic fix my problem and allow me to enlarge the partition to the full extent? Will Disk Management do that job?
Thanks.