therocker39

I just upgraded the hard drive in my dell E1505 laptop from an 80gb 5400rpm hd to a 320gb 7200rpm hd I used apricorn drive wire and apricorn ezgig II cloning software to clone the old drive to the new but after installing the new hard drive in the laptop it is now only an 80gb hard drive there is no unallocated space to partition I checked the bios and it says I have an 80gb hard drive is there any way to regain the lost 240gb or did i ruin my hard drive


Thanks for any help

voyagerfan99

Download and burn a copy of GParted and check the partition size. If there is unallocated space, resize the partition.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

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therocker39

as I had stated there is no unallocated space it is reading a 320gb hd as an 80gb hd the other 240gb are just not beeing seen by the computer not in the bios not in disc manager not at all but thanks for your suggestion

johnb35

Either you have a drive that is mislabeled or you put the old drive back in.

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therocker39

no when I first hooked up the drive it read as a 320gb hd and the old drive is a toshiba and is clearly labled and the new drive is a western digital also clearly labled and the toshiba is on my desk the western digital is in my laptop but again thanks for your input

johnb35

Maybe this apricorn software did something to this new drive to make it only use 80gb. Western digital has their own Acronis True image software to clone drives, I would have downloaded that and used it. You may need to download western digitals drive utility and run it and see whats its got for space now.

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therocker39

Ithought the same thing and downloaded both acronis and digtal lifeguard from westerndigital and tried wiping the hard drive clean and using western digitals software but it made no difference I have been researching this on other forums as well some may think it has to do with the mbr file others think it might be the dell bios though i bought the drive from dell and they say it can handle drives up to 500gb

StrangleHold

Thats really a odd one. Even with the software you used it still should have shown up as unallocated space. Even odd if it was a bios limit, over the years it kinda went 32GB/64GB then up to 120GB. 80GB is just a odd number even for a limit.

Look in the bios under the Standard CMOS setting(what most call it) usually the first setup page and see if someone has the drive channel setup as manual instead of Auto.

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therocker39

it's dell it's not adjustable it reads it itself

ganzey

are you running windows xp by any chance?

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