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Hard drive not showing true size

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by jonette20, 2008/10/30.

  1. 2008/10/30
    jonette20

    jonette20 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I am running Windows XP sp3 on a Panasonice laptop.
    The hard drive installed is a 80gb drive and it shows up int the bios as 80gb.
    However, in the device manager it is showing as 9.36gb with 1.95 freespace.

    I did use Norton Ghost 2003 to copy to the drive from another drive, which was a 10 gb drive.
    I have always used this 10gb drive to ghost all the laptops and have never seen this happen.

    Anyone have any ideas. Would it be an XP or Ghost issue?

    Thanks in advance for your help
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to WindowsBBS :)

    I guess this is basically a Ghost issue - when a drive is cloned it is cloned to a partition of the same size or marginally larger as the clone source.

    If you go into Disk Management - right click My Computer icon > Manage > Disk Management I think you will see a chunk of unallocated space. Right click on that and make one or more partitions to fill the drive and you will have access to the full drive capacity.
     
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    jonette20

    jonette20 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks PeteC , you are right, but like I said before the Ghost program had not functioned like that before, so it thru me for a loop.
     
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    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    I use Ghost 2003 but have never cloned a hard disk with a single partition. They have always had at least two partitions. When initiating the Disk-to-Disk cloning, Ghost 2003 suggests partition sizes that are proportional. A 50 GB hard disk with two 25 GB partitions > when cloned to a 100 GB hard disk, it will get two 50 GB partitions. The sizes can be altered by the user but not smaller than the used space fits in.

    Did you check the suggested partition size when the cloning was initiated?

    If the 10 GB hard disk is untouched, make another attempt and check the "size dialog ".

    Christer
     
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