[Solved]Recovered my win7 into another harddrive. Problems...

[lincoln_bw]

Hi, first post...
I encountered the ocz vertex2(60gb) "select proper boot drive" problem and the drive was pretty much dead, so i replaced it with an old harddrive (a seagate 160gb) from another pc. i recovered the backup window into the 160gb harddrive. Done and everything worked smoothly until i go to "computer" and saw that the total space of the drive was not 160gb but rather 55gb(which i believe is the disk volume info from the ocz drive)
So how can i reclaim the disk space?:\

 

[mikeymikec]

Possibly: Device Manager > Disk Management
select the 160GB disk's partition, right-click, 'extend volume' (I think).

I can't remember the rest from there. A full CHKDSK on that volume would be a good idea afterwards.

 

[lincoln_bw]

Thank you! It worked!

 

[mikeymikec]

Do you know how to do a full chkdsk?

admin command prompt
chkdsk C: /f /v /r

 

[lincoln_bw]

Just finished it. took about an hour and a half. so the harddrive is good to go right?

 

[mikeymikec]

Probably. You could check the results of the disk check.

From say an admin command prompt, type:
eventvwr

Windows logs: Application
Look for an entry whose source is 'wininit', which would be dated at around the time that the disk check ran. Double-click on the appropriate entry. The output shouldn't be novel-sized, so it should be OK to post it here.

 

[lincoln_bw]

Here it is:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Local Disk.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
186112 file records processed. File verification completed.
243 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 28 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
232988 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
186112 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 1621 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1621 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1621 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
23439 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35787352 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
186096 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
31813157 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

156184575 KB total disk space.
28552940 KB in 158704 files.
82936 KB in 23440 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
296067 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
127252632 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
39046143 total allocation units on disk.
31813158 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 d7 02 00 8b c7 02 00 b3 09 05 00 00 00 00 00 ................
9f 01 00 00 1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
f8 5d 22 00 50 01 20 00 78 19 20 00 00 00 20 00 .]".P. .x. ... .

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

[mikeymikec]

Looks OK.