Hard drive not reporting accurate Disk Size!

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Daris

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I'm hoping someone here will have an answer for this. The problem is, I have cloned a hard drive using the Addonics HDD Duplicator PRO S (Model # HDUSI325AES) and the disk size of the target drive has been reduced to the size of the master drive.

Looking in the disk management control panel the missing space is simply not there. The drive is showing maximum capacity of 64GB when the actual size is 128gb. I have tried reformating the drive, fixboot through WinXP recovery console and secure erasing the drive. No success at reclaiming the missing space.

I will list the problem disk I am working with right now below. However, this has happened to multiple drives, mechancial and SSD.

FM: VBM1EL1Q
P/N: MMCRE28G8MXP-0VBL1
S/N#: SOENNEAZ414228
Model: 1.8' 128 MLC SSD
Lenovo PN 45N7952
Lenovo FRU 45N7953


Does anyone have any suggestions? Please let me know if there is any other information that I can include that would help.
 
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Daris

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I'm on XP SP2. However, I have plugged this hard drive into a Win7 and Mac machine and each system does not display the missing space in their disk management areas. I had a guy here plug it into a linux box also and same deal. (I don't know anything about linux)
 
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pete1229

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Unfortunately I don't think you can clone a disk from xp to use on a 7 machine. What you need to do is re-size (in disk manager), you might have to delete all partitions, if you're ok with this. When done then make a new partition/format to the full size of the drive, then just transfer you xp files to the newly partitioned disk.
 
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VirtualLarry

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Did the HD Cloner device use the "SET MAX LBA" command, to firmware-limit the destination drive, such that it exactly matches the source drive? That's what it sounds like.
 
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Daris

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VirtualLarry said:
Did the HD Cloner device use the "SET MAX LBA" command, to firmware-limit the destination drive, such that it exactly matches the source drive? That's what it sounds like.
Click to expand...

There is a "Copy with Size" option on the device, which I am assuming is the root cause of the problem. I am playing around with it right now.
My main issue however, is figuring out a way to reclaim the space on the hard drives that have already been affected by this.
 
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Daris

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I have solved this. There was an undocumented feature on the cloning machine to do a quick erase that removed whatever limitation it had set on the drive.

For anyone else that might run into this:

-Make sure "Copy with Size" is set to off in the setup menu in order to prevent this from happening on future copies.

To remove the size limitation from your target drive:
-Place the affected drive into the cipher hard drive tray.
-Place the hard drive tray into the target slot of the Addonics HDD Duplicator PRO S (Model # HDUSI325AES) and insert the cipher key.
-Once the machine detects your hard drive, hold down the ESC key to access the Advanced Setup menu.
-Cycle to "Quick Erase" and activate that option, answering yes for "are you sure?".
-You may or may not get another question at this point about removing HPS data. Just answer Yes for that also.

Your hard drive should now show its max capacity.
 
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