lost 200+ GB from my HD need help

[THORN74]

greetings all. I have run into a brick wall ..... I purchaesd a samsung HM320JI note book drive with a 320GB capacity. It was intended to replace my 100gb drive in my dell e1705 laptop. I had the drive in an external enclosure connected via USB2.0 and cloned the old drive with Disc Copy 2.0.

After cloning the drive read as 91.75gb and i cannot access the remaining 200+gb. I have since wiped the new drive, but nothing will see it as anything but 91.75gb. bios, winxp, fdisk, everything else i have tried will only show the 91.75gb.

how do i get my full 320 back??

thanx in advance

 

[Ijack]

What does Disk Management show in XP? You may need to create another partition, or else use some partition management software to expand the current one.

 

[THORN74]

disk management in winXP shows only the 91.75gb...... it is currently unallocated space. It originally showed 299gb before i tried to clone my old drive to it. There is nothing i have tried as yet that will show the correct capacity. I am at the end of my experiance.

 

[Ijack]

Have you tried disk partitioning software - something like this? I've never experienced anything that would make a drive look smaller to the BIOS.

 

[THORN74]

yes i have tried that exact software (free version) and it saw the drive as 91.75 gb and not the 299gb it should have. any other ideas?

 

[sarwar_r87]

use partition magic v8 to run a full dignostic check and then delete all partition and and redo them.
it happened 2 me when i tried to mirror my 160GB into 320GB. i could only access 160GB.

 

[bricked2]

Hi THORN74,

I'm having the very same problem with a WD drive. Did you ever get the 200GB back??

If you did, I'd be elated to find out how.