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Wrong Disk Geometry after Clone Process

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Hello community,

I used ATIH 2010 to clone the 80 GB defective SATA HDD within my Dell Notebook to a brand new 160 GB SATA WD HDD, everything worked fine, I was using the "AS IS" Clone option. Now I sold the Dell Notebook without my HDD and realized that the 160GB HDD only shows 80GB capacity.

It shows 80GB in the BIOS, within ATIH 2010, under Linux, unter Windows and in every other Tool i used to check it.

How can this be, what can I do to use the whole disk again with 160GB capacity ?

Thanks in advance,

Marco

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If you clone Manual, AS IS, ATI will create a 80GB partition on the target disk. If you choose automatic, ATI will scale automatically the partitions to the new size.
There is nothing wrong with using AS IS and then adjusting the partition size to recover the unallocated space.

Pat,

This problem is usually caused by Media Direct on Dell systems (especially older ones). Cloning the drive causes the capacity of the new drive to be the same as the old drive. It has to be fixed to correct it -- there is no unallocated space.

Ah... I didn't know that.