I would try to use diskpart to extend the volume to 500 GB after the restore

Think the problem here is that the restore writes the volume information back

Regards
MIchael

2008/3/1, A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:49:51PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > > Is there a work-around? As I understand it, it's all or nothing with Full
> > > restores on Flashbackup.
> >
> > If you want to expand the volume, do a file-based restore from your Flash
> > backups.  You'll take longer to do the restore, but the volume will be
> > expanded.
> >
> > I wouldn't be surprised, though, if there wasn't a 3rd party hack to expand
> > the size of that volume to let you use the remaining 148GB.  Check into
> > something like Partition Magic or something along those lines.   I'm not
> > that good with Windows though - try it with a test volume first (unless you
> > like restores :-)).
>
> Exactly what I was thinking.  Windows isn't in an unstable state, and
> there are certainly tools out there that can shrink and expand NTFS
> filesystems.
>
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