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Cloned disk "thinks" it is much smaller than it is. Nomen Nescio 08-12-2005
Posted by Nomen Nescio on August 12, 2005, 3:50 pm
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I imaged an 80 GB HD onto a new 200GB one. The new 200GB HD now is
convinced it is an 80GB one. No amount of "Partition Magic" can make it
reclaim the remaining 120GB.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.



Posted by Bit Twister on August 12, 2005, 9:27 am
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:50:05 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:
> I imaged an 80 GB HD onto a new 200GB one. The new 200GB HD now is
> convinced it is an 80GB one.

Guessing _image_ in disk context means bit for bit, format for format
and size for size.

> No amount of "Partition Magic" can make it
> reclaim the remaining 120GB.
> Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Lack of any OS information/partition format prevents any specific help.

I suggest partition/formatting 120 gig with whatever OS's partitioning tools
then copy data.



Posted by David H. Lipman on August 12, 2005, 2:24 pm
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| I imaged an 80 GB HD onto a new 200GB one. The new 200GB HD now is
| convinced it is an 80GB one. No amount of "Partition Magic" can make it
| reclaim the remaining 120GB.
| Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

What makes you think this is a Computer Security related question -- It isn't.

It is realted to the OS, platform BIOS and hardware and the hard disk imaging
software. You
don't mention what the OS is, the OS Service Pack level, the imaging software,
or even about
the platform. There are *many* variables related to this problem and none are
security
related.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm




Posted by Unruh on August 12, 2005, 4:15 pm
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>I imaged an 80 GB HD onto a new 200GB one. The new 200GB HD now is
>convinced it is an 80GB one. No amount of "Partition Magic" can make it
>reclaim the remaining 120GB.
>Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Yes. You overwrote everything on the disk that made it think it was a 200GB
drive with stuff which made it think it was an 80GB drive. DO NOTE CLONE
smaller disk to a larger.
(Also yell at the people who wrote the cloning software. Of course if you
did a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb, you are on your own.)



Posted by David H. Lipman on August 12, 2005, 4:44 pm
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|
| Yes. You overwrote everything on the disk that made it think it was a 200GB
| drive with stuff which made it think it was an 80GB drive. DO NOTE CLONE
| smaller disk to a larger.
| (Also yell at the people who wrote the cloning software. Of course if you
| did a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb, you are on your own.)
|

If he had used Symantec/Norton Ghost this would have been quite possible, clone
a 80GB drive
with say 10GB free space to a 200GB drive and the OS would see the 200GB drive
with 130GB of
free space. However, the OP didn't even bother to explain how the drive was
cloned.

There is nothing wrong with cloing a smaller drive to a larger drive as long as
the BIOS
recognizes the larger drive, and the OS recognizes the larger drive.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm




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