Reduced Capacity with Cloning

[ReverendFothers]

HI, I used Acronis Migrate Easy to copy my 80gb laptop drive, so that I would be able to install a new 250gb drive. No problem so far, copied all data to a remote drive. Restored onto new 250gb drive, that unfortunately now thinks it is an 80gb drive.

All format and chkdsk functions report the drive to be 80gb. Any suggestions Guru's how I can restore the drive to being a nice blank 250gb drive?

Thanks

The Rev

[CK]

Try this...

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ ... tore-Tool/

[ReverendFothers]

Thanks for the suggestion. The 250gb (or 80gb as it is now) is in a remote cradle on USB, and the hd restore software doesn't find it, only the on-board drive is found.

Dash it!

The Rev

[dobrevjetser]

you'll have to attach it to the motherboard to function. Via usb it will not function.

Dobre

[BlackST]

Maybe you have cloned the partition boundaries too. In this case a simple "format" from windows doesn't work. On BIOS the drive is 250 GB ? Then you can remove everything (partition etc.) and recreate a full 250GB partiton in disk management.

[ReverendFothers]

Thanks CK and Dobrevjetser, I connected it to my media player which has a sata motherboard and voila, 180gb hiding away, now restored and formatting.

Thanks for your help and input everyone

The Rev