I want to replace a 1 TB drive that's on it's last legs with a 2-TB drive.

I imaged the sick drive with Macrium Reflect, creating a single file.

Here's what the drive looked like in Disk Manager:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rEFsF2H9F7mNJXjRA

When I just restore the image to the 2 TB file, I get a system that works,
but the additional space is unavailable for expansion of the "Data" partition
because "HP_RECOVERY" sits in the middle - between existing "Data" and the
new unused space.

I've tried to fool Mother Nature a number of ways - but with no success.

It seems like that HP_RECOVERY is both essential to the day-to-day operation
of the system ("Recovery" ????) AND is required to be the third partition
because I've tried to force the issue by allocating a beeeeg "Data" and then
restoring HP_RECOVERY at the end - but to no avail.

Is this a fool's errand?

My agenda is to make that extra TB available as part of the "Data" partition
so I have almost 1.5 TB available for "Data".
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Pete Cresswell