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    M1530 Size Way Way Off

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by AFDOOM, Jul 7, 2011.

  1. AFDOOM

    AFDOOM Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I have been searching this for the past two days and I keep finding people asking why there 250gb HDD only reads 235gb. My issue is along those same lines but a little more out of wack. I replaced my maxed out stock 200gb Seagate Momentus HDD in my M1530 with a 500gb Western Digital Scorpio Black. I mirrored using Apricorn Upgrade Suite and everything went well as far as function goes but my PC is telling me that my HDD is 186gb (200gb) and not 500gb. I looked in the BIOS and it says 500gb HDD. I have tried updating the driver. Now Im lost.

    Please help.
     
    AFDOOM, Jul 7, 2011
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    EDIT: My bad, read Tsunade's post below.
     
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    I dont think thats right. Even if that were the case, 500GB is roughly 465GiB and my new 500GB(465 GiB) HDD is telling me its maxed out at 186GB just as my 200GB HDD was.
     
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Right imaging software will clone the partition correctly, but did you have it clone it proportionally? It's harder doing it after the fact, Acronis Disc Director can do it. Or you could just format the remaining space in Disk Management and create a separate partition(s). Best thing to do would be reclone it and get it resized beforehand if you want the 500 GB used entirely for your original image.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 7, 2011
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  5. AFDOOM

    AFDOOM Notebook Enthusiast

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    Now that I think about it I think I did a proportional clone. Now that I know that I guess I just hope there is a way to do it without re cloning. that took a while.
    Ill try it with my current software and if not ill get back with you.
    Thank a lot for the info
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You can resize the partitions within Disk Management if you have Vista/7. Don't think you can do it with XP.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 7, 2011
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    O 0k. Any direction as to how to do that? I have Vista.
     
    AFDOOM, Jul 7, 2011
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    Never mind I figured it out. Thanks a lot!
     
    AFDOOM, Jul 7, 2011
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