Cloned Hard Drive won't enable all space

I have upgraded a Dell laptop's hard drive. I used Acronos True Image 11 and
cloned the existing system drive (c) to an external USB drive. Swapped a
40gb for a 120gb. Used the closed image and restored it onto the new
120gb drive. However the system is only reporting the original 40gb being
available. O/S is WinXp Home and the Disk Management utility does not show
the other approx 80gb available to partition to another driver letter. Any ideas how to make the remaing 80gb available? And/or as a seperate partition if that's my only option.

Thanks Brent

 

This is a very common problem. Solution is in this link:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1044452&postcount=2

 

Brent,

In Disk Management, do you see Disk 0 as only 40 GB? Do you see 80 GB of unallocated space? Does your BIOS report 40 GB?

Is your laptop an Inspiron with MediaDirect 2?

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=167401

Get back to us with answers and we can guide you through the maze.

 

Sounds familiar. Hey Brian, how it going?

 

If I'm not mistaken that's not going to work. Brian guided me through the fix which sound identical for my Dell with Media Direct.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=195589

 

Ahhh .... one of those Media Direct situations! Let us know what works, Brent.

 

A few days ago I wrote...

 

Certainly seems odd ... maybe they're aliens who have been recalled to their planet.

 

Guys, appreciate all the input!!! Been out on business (haven't left this universe) and so are catching up. Sorry for the delay!!!

Disk Management and the BIOS are reporting the old drive space. And yes the laptio is Inspiron with MediaDirect (can't find which version).

I also read that there appears to be an option to do a backup image process. I used the Cloned option to make a copy and then the Cloned option again to get the copy to the new larger HD.

Lots of threads with lots answers, which one works for my configuration?

Thanks to all..

 

BrentdSt, all is forgiven. You are still on the planet. This post summarizes the fix.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=167401&page=2#27

Questions?

 

None right now..Reviewing and downloading..will let you know the results.
Thanks

 

MHDD is providing error. 'Fail. Try to re-power the HDD'. HDDGuru.com site recommends using 'HDD capacity restore' but that doesn't work. Posting issue to their site now..

 

I'd download Dan's CD... (dsrfix98.zip)

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1155827177/30

Make a CD, boot from the CD, type HDAT2 and press Enter. There are instructions for using HDAT2 in....

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=167401

 

The problem here is that my old HD has MediaDirect 2 on it and when cloning the Master Boot Record and MD 2 are cloned causing the space issue.

Dell Forum recommends to zap the drive (zero LBA-3), clone but DO NOT clone the MediaDirect or MBR.

I can't see where True Image allows me to not select partitions, the Manual process simply provides no option.

Ccan this be done?

 

In ATI parlance, yo want to make a Bckup rather than clone--clone takes the eniter disk image and lays it onto another Hdisk. Backup lets you copy the image of a disk or individual partitions and thenthat bckup file can be used to resore the image to another disk/partition.