Cloned Hard Drive Now Showing a 39MB D: drive

I cloned my 250GB stock drive to a 500GB drive. I put the new drive in and it boots just fine. I increased the partition to take advantage of the full space. Now when I open "My Computer" I see a "D:" drive that is 39MB. I guess its the boot and I guess it was usually hidden. Is there a way to hide it so I don't mistakenly save something to it. Should I write protect it?

 

If I remember right Dell usually has a very small diagnostic partition at the front of the drive. It was so you could boot into a diagnistic program to test the components of the computer if you are having problems. I'm not sure how to "hide" from Windows if that is where you are seeing it.

 

Yeah I am seeing it in Windows. No big deal just annoying and I don't want to save something to it, it had like 30MB free and I can just see myself saving a document or something and it screw up the boot. I found a tutorial about hiding it in windows but I wondered if anyone had seen this after a clone. During the clone it copied 3 partitions, the 39MB one, the 15GB restore, and then the main OS.

 

I will be doing the clone tonight when I get home, so I'll see if I end up in the same situation or not.

 

I used the EASEUS tool if anyone is curious. Like I said, it worked like a charm, no problems booting up when I inserted the cloned drive. All I had to do was extend the partition. What an easy swap out too, took about 15 minutes to remove the old drive and put the new one in.

 

You should be able to go to:
Computer Management (type into start menu), then find Storage -> Disk Management. Right click the drive in question, click on "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and remove the "D:" assignment.

 

+rep for clear, concise, and correct answer.

 

Yes! Thanks that worked.