My new hard drive shrank from 500GB to 92GB
I have a 500GB Hitatchi 2.5 inch hard drive that now reads 92 GB after I attempted a disk-to-disk clone using Acronis true image home. The mfr says the sectors/track should be 1980, and my Win XP OS shows 63 sectors per track. The 92GB is exactly the same capacity as the drive I was trying to clone. How do I get my 500GB back? (I don't care about the data)???
Here are the details of what I did, as best I can remember:
1) I create a boot disk for Acronis True Image Home.
2) I put my new 500GB drive into a USB enclosure (my destination drive), and my source drive into a HP laptop
3) I ran the process for "clone a hard disk" from the Acronis boot drive.
4) I can't remember which options I selected
The resulting clone didn't work as a boot disk, but worse yet, the total disk capacity of the new 500GB drive now shows as equal to the total disk capacity of the source drive = 92GB.

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It worked!!
I happen to have a Hitachi drive, and from your index, I found out about the "Hitatchi Feature Tool". I downloaded the ISO image of the boot disk, burned the ISO to a CD, and rebooted that application from the boot CD, and it had a menu item to restore my drive capacity, which worked instantly! Then I went back to Acronis, and did a conservative disk backup- disk-restore (not a disk-to-disk or sector-by-sector restore) using the Acronis boot disk for both steps, and a USB drive to hold the archive. It restored perfectly, including the funky Dell hidden partitions.
Grover, thank you for your fine community service - you saved my neck!
Dana Ludwig
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Thanks Dana. It's always nice to know that something works as planned and it's great to hear that you did both a disk backup and a disk restore. A disk restore will usually have a good success ratio providing the user has created the proper backup in the beginning that included all their contents.
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