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Cloned Drive No Good -- Seagate Momentus

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I used the bootable cd version of TI 2011 to clone a drive on a Dell Inspiron 6400. 80 gb internal drive to a usb-connected Seagate Momentus 320 gb drive. Before startring, I booted into XP and confirmed that the drive could be formatted and mounted.

The clone seemed to go perfectly, but when swapped out, I get BSOD. Going back to the orignial configuration, I see the 320 gb drive NOW appears to be 73.13 gb! TI has done something truly weird to the drive. Acronis Disk Director shows the drive capacity to be 73.13, but also that it has a 120 gb partition (the size I expanded the old c: to be).

FWIIW, I put the drive in an eSATA dock on my Win 7 x64 system. Still shows as 73.13 gb.

I am looking for someone who has seen this and understands what is happening.

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Before you try the fix in my link below, please post a screen capture of how your new disk shows when viewed in Windows Disk management graphical view.
  
My first suggestion would be as follows.
1. Remove and attach the old disk to the usb connector.
2. Attach the new 320 in same location as the 80 gb was inside the Dell.
3. Boot from the TI bootable rescue CD
  a. Use the Add disk option and delete the partitions put there by the prior clone.
  b. Clone the old disk onto the new blank 320.
     Use the manual option and you can adjust the partition sizes if necessary.
4. Shutdown and disconnect the old connection and reboot with only the new disk connected.

If you disk still remains undersized, then do the below but I would prefer to see a picture of the 320 as it exists now.

This post may be of assistance.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/9303#comment-25052