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    Hard Drive Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Lon Silvers, Nov 29, 2008.

  1. Lon Silvers

    Lon Silvers Newbie

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    I have an unusual problem. I have a full 120g hard drive (OEM)(sata) and am attempting to replace it with a western digital 320g 7200rpm hard drive. Everytime I clone a hard drive it shows up both in "my computer" and the bios as a 120g hard drive. If I attempt to refomat the hard drive it stills show up as 120g. WD claims they have never heard of the problem. Happened with 3 different 320g hard drives!
     
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  2. Erokitsune

    Erokitsune Notebook Consultant

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    what computer do you have?

    with the new 320gb harddrive go to control panal >> admin tools >> computer management >> under storage click disk management

    What does it say about your drive? it should tell you if you have any unallocated space and how much space your current partition is.
     
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  3. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    This is because you are 'cloning' the 120GB, so both are exactly the same size even though there is extra space. Ideally what you need to be doing is just copying your information over to the larger hard drive.
     
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    dg1261 Notebook Geek

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    Sounds like your original hard disk has factory-installed MediaDirect 2. See my webpage here for an explanation of the problem. Then visit the link to the Acronis forum for remediation techniques.

    Dan
     
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  5. Lon Silvers

    Lon Silvers Newbie

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    Dan: Thank you. That was the problem and solution. It drove a few people who worked on this computer a litte crazy to put it mildly.

    Thanks for all your help.

    Lon
     
    Lon Silvers, Dec 1, 2008
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