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cloned drive woes

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hoppa

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after what looked to have been a perfect disk image from an old, dying drive to a nice new drive, i have noticed an odd problem. windows explorer seems to think that my new 160gb drive is still the old 80gb drive (in terms of capacity). how do i get windows to recognize that this is a different drive? in disk management, the top list of disks shows it as being 80gb while the bottom graphic of partitions has it correctly displayed at 160 gb. any ideas? i thought maybe defragging or disk cleanup would fool it into fixing itself but that hasnt worked.

-andy
 
it is an SATA drive and it is my system drive (windows installed on it), so i doesnt look like i can remove it like that. any way i can?
 
Wellll, I don't have SATA but aren't they listed as SCSI somethings? If so the same procedure will work. It doesn't matter if it's the system drive or not.

techfuzz
 
i do still have everything installed on the old drive. perhaps i could boot onto that one and try the suggestion... the idea makes me nervous though. it seems like the type of thing that could screw up. what should i remove in device manager as this is an sata drive? windows has it listed as scsi for some reason.
 
the top list of disks shows it as being 80gb while the bottom graphic of partitions has it correctly displayed at 160 gb
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Does the bottom graphic list the capacity as 160, with 80 in use? If so, create an Extended Partition in the unused space, then a logical partition within the extended partition. You'll now have a D: drive with 80 GB in addition to your current 80 GB C: drive.
 
Move your page file to E: if your boot partition is either C: or D:

Everything looks ok to me, am I missing something?

techfuzz
 
Originally posted by: techfuzz
Move your page file to E: if your boot partition is either C: or D:

Everything looks ok to me, am I missing something?

techfuzz
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yeah, in the top view the drives are 5 and 70 gigs in capacity, in the bottom they are 10 and 140!
 
Originally posted by: hoppa
yeah, in the top view the drives are 5 and 70 gigs in capacity, in the bottom they are 10 and 140!
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DOH! Too much football today I guess! My bad!

I'd still try uninstalling the SATA device from device manager and rebooting and letting it get reinstalled.

techfuzz
 
oh man, now i've really thrown windows for a loop! i've filled up the small partition beyond its listed (5gb) capacity, and suddenly the more MBs i upload the more free space it lists on the drive. it's going backwards! i'm gonna try rebooting and seeing if thatll knock some sense into the damn thing.
 
well i uninstalled the scsi device and it hasnt reinstalled itself 😉 i guess that wasnt the right thing? i dont know which else to uninstall. should i uninstall the hd from the disk drives tree (i dont think so)? the only other thing the would maybe make sense is the SATARaid controller in the scsi and raid controllers tree, but im not using raid.

also weird, and now i am getting worried, i've deleted the two big files i copied to overstuff the drive and the free space has continued to go up.. it did not go back to what it was originally before i placed them there. chkdsk doesnt show a problem with the indexes and everything is running fine but that is a little weird to me.
 
You could always backup everything and do a clean reinstall... that usually fixes up everything rather nicely 😉

techfuzz
 
im doing everything i can not to reinstall, especially after everything went so perfectly until this. the whole process takes far too long and i just did it a couple months ago, and my current config is absolutely perfect.
 
i am in the same position as you. i have a 200gb sata drive which is my primary and a 160gb ide drive. both drives are seenas 137gb (or whatever the sp1 limit is) i've installed sp2 but this has not recovered the lost space. i don't want to reinstall cause i too have everything the way i want it and to do this over is a killer.
 
*somehow,* through a weird course of events in futsing with Partition Magic, i managed to get the extra 80 gigs to be put in a new partition. good enough for now 🙂 i dont think i wouldve been at all comfortable doing the things i was doing had i not known that an exact image of the drive was still only a few clicks away, and if something screwed up it wouldnt be the end of the world. so, for anyone in the future that may run into this problem (though in seeing the lack of information on the web i feel like it doesnt happen too often), mess with partition magic until the stupid thing works.

lrmat, im not sure if this solution will work for you but if you go for it, good luck.
 
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