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Lost half my hard drive after cloning

post #1 of 6
2/5/08 at 7:00am
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Hi all,

I've posted this up in the general tab, but thought I'd also try here as well.

I cloned my old 80gb drive over to my new 160GB drive using acronis, but must have selected something wrong as the new drive is now only showing 80GB capacity.

I've tried everything I can think of - reformatting the drive, using a zeroing utility, using disk director to extend the partition, but windows physically thinks there is only 80GB on the drive, it will not detect anymore, there is no unused space on the drive, no second partition, so whatever I try to do, it won't read the other 80GB.

Any ideas?

Its an Hitachi Travelstar 7k200 160GB.

Is it possible that there's some file (maybe the MBR) on the disk which has been altered by the cloning so the drive only thinks it has 80GB?
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post #2 of 6
2/5/08 at 2:05pm
Make a windows boot disk and use FDISK

you should be able to delete the existing partition then retreive your full disk space

There are other ways like partition magic, as well that may let you recover the lost space without formatting and losing your image.

When you copy an disk image from a smaller drive to a larger drive this is the result - think about it you imaged a 80 gig drive, but it still is a 160 at the low level format.
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post #3 of 6
2/5/08 at 9:45pm
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Originally Posted by dannyboyslim View Post
Hi all,

I've posted this up in the general tab, but thought I'd also try here as well.

I cloned my old 80gb drive over to my new 160GB drive using acronis, but must have selected something wrong as the new drive is now only showing 80GB capacity.

I've tried everything I can think of - reformatting the drive, using a zeroing utility, using disk director to extend the partition, but windows physically thinks there is only 80GB on the drive, it will not detect anymore, there is no unused space on the drive, no second partition, so whatever I try to do, it won't read the other 80GB.

Any ideas?

Its an Hitachi Travelstar 7k200 160GB.

Is it possible that there's some file (maybe the MBR) on the disk which has been altered by the cloning so the drive only thinks it has 80GB?
I am not a big fan of Acronis, well at least not of their software anyway....Do you still have the original drive? If so, I would suggest trying to clone it again--this time after downloading Seagates Disk wizard (from Seagate and Acronis software is based on it)....its free and it can help you partition the new drive and get setup so all the drive is accessible. It should work even though its an Hitachi drive.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/
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post #4 of 6
2/6/08 at 4:10am
Actually the Seagate software is a cut down version of Acronis True image, not the other way around.
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post #5 of 6
2/6/08 at 5:17am
I used acronis and dont like it.

I just use windows backup now.

just need a fresh install then just run the backup saved. and everything is just where you left it even programs that where open when you did the bacckup.
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post #6 of 6
2/6/08 at 5:37am
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All fixed, this thread refers (Post 20)


http://www.notebookforums.com/thread211970-2.html
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