Re: Cloning FYI

If anyone has already cloned the old HD and has a truncated new HD, do
this....

Download Roadkil's Sector Editor.

http://www.roadkil.net/diskutils.html

Unzip the file and copy sectedit.exe to a folder in your HD.

Double click sectedit.exe. In the Select Disk box choose Physical 0 and
click Open. (DON'T choose any of the drive letters). Use the arrows at the
bottom right to find LBA-3. It should take 3 clicks. Your sector may look
slightly different to the image below but if you find the "[XLDR]" string in
the lower right, that's a good clue that you are looking at the right
sector.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/bjkdegree/lba-3_dan.gif

Click Edit, Zero Data. Now you should see all zeroes. Click File, Save
Sector. Close Roadkil. Double click sectedit.exe again, repeat the above
choices and confirm that LBA-3 has been zeroed.

There are several tools that can be used to unhide the HPA and return a hard
disk to its full capacity. These include Hitachi Feature Tool, Seagate
SeaTools, Magic Boot Disk (MHDD), and HDAT2, among others. I think the
easiest to use is Seagate SeaTools for DOS.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/

Burn the ISO with ImgBurn. Then...

boot from the CD
select your HD
Advanced features
Set Capacity to Max Native
Exit

Now you can boot to Windows and you should have the full capacity of your
HD. I should mention that sometimes the first tool doesn't work. Then you
need to try others.


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