Rapid Restore Ultra don't resize partition on new HDD

Hi,
first as a new member,i send many thanks for both Lenovo community and Thinkpad.com Forum members for their great help in the thinkpad users world.....
Following one of the very good advices of Ajikula,i bought a new Samsung HM160HC IDE HDD to upgrade my old Hitachi 60 Gb on my R50p(1832 2ag)...
Previously ,i made a set of Recovery Media CD (19..) with Rapid Restore Ultra ...
You should know that it's the original version of RRU who comes from a previous Restore From Factory Settings,never update it..
On the other hand i run the last Bios and drivers and run XP SP3.
I putted brand new HDD (not formatted neither partitioned) instead of the old one and ran Backup Restore from the boot CD of the set i made..
All run very fine and some hours later all (OS,Programs and data)run fine in the new silent HDD.
The only problem is when i go in Windows "Disk manager" RRU install the same partitions size as they were on the old 60 G HDD,leaving 92Gb of "unalocated space" on the new 160 G HDD...
1)Should i had to format the new HDD before performing the Restore to allow Rapid Restore Ultra to resize the main partition(theHidden IBM service one still the same size obviously)
2)i read in RRU IBM doc any further partitioning lead to problems with RRU use,does that applies to this unallocated space (not already formatted)or just to the other partitions?
In other words,could i format this unallocated space,and IF YES what kind of partition could i create,without disturbing further RRU work (creatind Backups and Restore them..)
Thank you very much for your future help..!!
I apologize for my somewhat approximative english..!!
Best regards
Eric
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Hi,
so first of all you need to understand, that RnR (Rescue and Recovery) is not an imaging tool, it is a backup tool, which means, that in the backup are multiple informations stored. With information I mean also the alocated space. Which means in reality:
- you capture a rapid restore backup on a 60GB HDD
- you restore it on 120GB HDD => this will create only a 60GB partition, where will be all restored
- if you try to restore it on a 50GB HDD, then you may experience unexpected results, as the backup is expecting a 60GB HDD.
So in this case what you can do is to create a second partition from the rest, that was left from the restore.
What you can create is a NTFS Partition.
Let me know, if you need any more information.
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    First thing I would propose (if not already there) is a backup / clone of your OSX onto an external HD.
    Secondly boot your Mac from the OSX DVD and use Disk Utility from it to verify/repair your OSX.
    Regards
    Stefan

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