Hello, cnet forums. I have a problem. So I wanted to upgrade my hard drive on my laptop from 60 GB to 160 GB. I saw the 'How to Swap Hard Drives' video on cnet, and decided that that was how I was going to do it. So I bought an Apricorn DriveWire and a Western Digital Scorpio and was on my way.
I followed the directions to the letter- I got the Congratulations screen that said it was completed, i turned off the computer, pulled off the hardware, and installed the new hard drive in to my laptop. When I booted, I got a blue screen- stating that Windows will shut down to protect the hard drive from damage. It mentioned running check disk, and that my hard drive might not be 'terminated'. I then used the enclosure I bought to make the old hard drive an external to check the new drive.
It now states that it only has 54.4 GB of space on it! I then proceeded to try a quick format, format, and a low level format. Nothing changed it back to having the ~150 GB that was on the drive. I decided I'd take it back to Micro Center and get a new drive.
I did so, and opted to get a 250 GB instead. This time I decided to check the drive initially before I went through the process. It said it had ~238 GB of free space. So I open the. Metro 2033 Key Generator Download there. pdf file for the software to make CERTAIN I did everything correctly. I again got the Congrats screen, tried to put the new hard drive in and. Same problem. Checked it again and it seems as though the cloning process did it again!
Feb 11, 2012. I have tried to do this 3 times without success. Here's one thing to be aware of: EZ Gig IV software (and at least some others, I guess) will clone the entire hard drive, not just a single partition. So you can't just re-size the C: partition so that it is small enough to fit on the SSD. You have to make sure that all the.
It's like it's deciding that my new drive needs to be 54.4 GB (the size of my old one). I know that is not the case, because when I was doing the Cloning it shows the new partition sizes based on the expanded size of the new drive. It definitely showed that the partitions would grow.
I dunno what to do now. I can't take this drive back again. Some help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Paul. This is a common problem for people who don't pay attention to the settings in the cloning software.
Sometimes they will create a partition on a larger drive that is the exact size of the old drive. You can either check your settings with the cloning software and make a new image, or you can use one of a number of partitioning resizing programs. Since you currently have a functional cloned copy of the drive, plus the old drive itself, you don't need to worry about backups if the partition resizing program should have a problem and mess things up. If you want a free partition resizing program, look into Qparted. Last time I used it, which admittedly was a while ago, it was ugly and a little less than intuitive.
Once you figured out how to use it however, it worked a treat. For BIOS updates?
Now, AS FOR THE REPORTED SIZE, yes - an attempted image to a drive recognized as considerably smaller will have written the partition table and a smaller size will be seen. This is much the same issue as way back when there was an 8GB limit and a larger hard drive showed on systems as only 8 GB which was the largest the BIOS recognized. My Latitude wasn't very old either and a 120 GB drive would have been fine where the 160 was not UNTIL flashing to the A10 BIOS. Take advantage of your Service Number and locate the newest BIOS and go for it. I'm having it write zeros to the entire drive as we speak.
Unfortunately, it's still only showing the 114 mill sectors, not the 460 million that it should based on the ACTUAL drive size. So it's still only recognizing the 60 gigs. R Proffitt: Right now I have it hooked up to my desktop, where I initially checked the drive and it showed it as 238 GB.
So I know it should show up as such on this hardware, yet it still isn't. That's my main problem. I'm not doing this diagnosis on my laptop, and it's still having the problem ofs howing the full drive.
So I called Apricorn to get some insight into the issue. Apparently it's not an uncommon problem.
DELL AND THEIR DAMNED MEDIA DIRECT! HPA Problems When Upgrading Hard Disk Some people will eventually want to upgrade their hard disk to a new disk with larger capacity. Users should be warned about a unique problem that may occur in certain circumstances. If you try to replace your hard disk with a larger disk, if you try to clone the contents of your original disk to the new disk, and if your original disk contains HPA-based MediaDirect, then you may discover your new disk's capacity becomes truncated to the size of the original disk. For example, say you wish to replace your 60 GB disk with a new 120 GB disk. To avoid reinstalling everything, you decide to use something like Acronis True Image or Symantec Ghost to clone the contents of the 60 GB disk to the 120 GB disk. When you try to boot the new disk, however, it blue-screens or fails to boot, and a check of the BIOS settings shows the BIOS thinks your new disk is around the same size as the old disk!