Re: Dell Notebook Disk Upgrade problem; need help!

never heard of that program.
it could have written data into the bios to force the size.
also could have written a boot manager on the front of the drive to mask the size.
the entire 250gb should be listed in disk management and you should be able to partition to rest of it.
what happened to the dell utility partition at the start of the drive?


Rusty Williamson wrote:
Hi,



Re: Disk upgrade on Dell Inspiron E1505; Intel CoreTM Duo Proc T2050; XP Professional SP2



I've just got done upgrading the hard disk on my notebook from a 60GB drive to a 250GB drive. Rather then reinstall everything I used Apricorn's EZ Upgrade Sata Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit which creates a 'clone' of your current disk on the new disk drive.



It worked to a degree: the new 250 hard disk is in the PC and the PC boots but. only the partition that was cloned over shows up. I expected to see the other 190GB in Computer Management under Disk Management and be able to create a partition on it but, its not there. I've rebooted, had the PC scan for HW changes. In the Bios the drive is listed as a 60GB drive and, as far as I can see (and I've looked and looked) there is no way to change this! I checked the Device Manager and the disk seems listed correctly with 'WD' and '250'.



Anyone have any ideas?



Thanks!

Rusty


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