clone to larger HD partition question

Hello…

I used the trial version of true image 9 to clone my Western Digital SATA 80GB hard drive to a new Seagate barracuda SATA 300GB drive, and used the AUTOMATIC setting. It cloned the drive perfectly, but now the new drive shows up in Belarc with the old volumes and not the new drive volume. It does show the new 300GB drive installed, but with the old volumes. Here is how it’s listed:

76.17 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
38.02 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ST3300831AS [Hard drive] (300.07 GB) -- drive 0


In windows, under System Information, STORAGE,
this is shown:

DISKS
Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model ST3300831AS
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 279.46 GB (300,066,439,680 bytes)
Total Cylinders 36,481
Total Sectors 586,067,265
Total Tracks 9,302,655
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 2.00 GB (2,146,765,824 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 70.94 GB (76,174,318,080 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 2,146,798,080 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 206.52 GB (221,745,323,520 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 78,321,116,160 bytes

DRIVE
Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 70.94 GB (76,174,315,520 bytes)
Free Space 35.40 GB (38,015,135,744 bytes)
Volume Name
Volume Serial Number 247622E2

How do I get the 300GB volume (no partitions, just one big ‘ol “C” drive) to be recognized? Also I was unable to run diskcheck…got a message about rebooting to access needed files on disk.

System:
Dell Dimension 8400 (Nov ’04)
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
2.5GB RAM
Windows XP home SP2

Thanks!

 

sunman9,

Same computer as mine. Have a look in Disk Management. Do you have 207 GB of Unallocated Space?

 

Hi Brian K...

Didn't even know disk managemenrt existed! (Thanks!)
Anyway...
DM shows 3 partitions with this info:

LAYOUT TYPE FILS SYS CAPACITY
partition basic FAT 2GB
partition basic FAT32 206.47
Cartition Basic NTFS 70.94

Under FAT32 for the 206GB, it says "unknown partition".

Now what?

 

sunman9,

Easiest way would be to rearrange the partitions with Partition Magic etc. If you don't have the software you could redo the clone making sure to tick something along the lines of "resize partition to fill unallocated space".

I haven't cloned using TI but others will help with the fine points.

What I'd do is leave the C drive alone and from Disk Management, right click the 207 GB space and format as NTFS. Don't tick the quick or compress boxes. Now you will have two partitions which is more sensible than only having one. You can keep your data separate from the OS and you can write images of the OS to your data partition.

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/notes.htm#13

 

Thanks for the information Brian K...

I now have a correctly partitioned drive. After reading your link, it makes sense to try using separate partitions with the OS and apps on one and data on the other.

 

I'm pleased to be of assistance. It's a good link but the comments on other imaging software aren't relevant for you.