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    Acer Aspire 5000 adding new 320 drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Jack Bennet, Nov 11, 2010.

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    Jack Bennet Newbie

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    I used partition master software to copy the original 100 gb disk to a new 320 gb disk. It copied okay and showed the total 320 gb. I then swapped drives. The problem is the new 320 gb drive now only shows about 150 gb's. I have repeated this twice following the directions on the partion master software with no sucess. I looked in the bios and there isn't anyplace I can change anything to a large drive. Can you help?

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    Jack Bennet, Nov 11, 2010
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    In Windows control panel/ administrative tools you'll find disk management console. See if all the HD is partitioned- if not create format what's not and create another partition. BIOS shouldn’t be an issue here although you might want to verify that you are using the latest one just for the sake of it.
     
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