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Harddrive change piklhead

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piklhead

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Hello and help!

Tried to install a new harddrive. Fujitsu 120GB 5400rpm in my gateway gz3818 laptop. Process used as follows:1.Installed new HD in 2.5 encloseure. 2. Copied drive D:/ (original 40GB partitioned restore drive from laptop) to new HD. 3. Realized in the copy process, that it partitioned the new drive with the same partition size as the original drive. 4. Laptop only reconizes 4.8GB of the new drive. 5. Reformatted new drive. still only reconizes 4.8GB.

All of this done with original drive still in laptop and new drive in 2.5 enclosure connected through usb port and Shown as Drive F:/

Any help in getting new drive reconized as 120GB and starting fresh would be appreciated. Reason for ghosting this way was to start with fresh drive and not copy any existing spyware etc, by cloning files and settings from C:/ drive

Thanks for helping a NewBee
piklhead@sbcglobal.net
 
You can look in the Fijitsu's website - they may have some utilities.

You can use partition magic or other similar 3rd part utilities.

They will completely erase all partitions on your hdd and start over...
 
If you boot up on your old drive with the new drive in USB then right click my computer and choose manage then disk management you can reformat and change the partitions on your new drive.

OZ
 
wpshooter

Yes I'm gonig to keep the old drive, not in the laptop. I'm going to swap it into the 2.5 enclosure, and use it for backup, and put the 120 in the laptop. The 3018 only has one HD space.
piklhead
 
I haven't tried that yet. Don't think it will work though. If I boot with new drive (120GB) in the laptop and then plug the old drive (40GB in the 2.5 enclosure) into the USB port, the computer goes into an abreviated boot cycle that can only be interupted by unplugging the old drive from the USB port.

I ended up reinstalling the 40GB drive in the laptop, copied most important files to a mini PNY12GB USB drive. I then pulled the 40GB out put the 120GB back in and reinstalled the files from the PNY12GB. Everything seems to work. I have lost some favorites and will have to restore part of my address book from my palm. When I copied the the addres book from the laptop I got mostly names and email addresses. My PALM has the phone #'s and street addresses.

Thanks for all of your help folks!
 
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