Migrate Easy 7 - upgraded 30Gb to a 250GB HD - Now Drive is full
I recently used Migrate Easy 7 to upgrade my Laptop's 30GB Hard Drive to a 250GB Western Digital hard Drive. I am running Windows XP and had 2 partiions. Both Partitions were being resized during the migration. My O/S was in a partition going from 8GB to 25Gb (d dvie) and all my programs and other data was going from about 22GB to around 220B (c drive). Everything went pretty smoothly, I thought.
I swapped the HD's to install the larger one. The computer booted up no problem. After a short while I started getting drive full errors. I checked the drive in the windows utility and the c drvie is showing completely full with 0 free space. After Checking everywhere to see if I could locate what was using that much space (no luck) I redid the migration. After a short time same scenario.
I have been on with support 3 times and they have taken control of my laptop remotely. No luck. I have run chkdsk with no luck. I was finally told to redo the Migration a 3rd time using the manual process, but my origninal HD won't boot now so I am stuck. The D drive seems to have empty space on it, but the c drive as soon as I delete space it gets used in no time. My applications are failling since I have no space. I can't even install diagnostic tools to check because I have no space. I saw in a forum to use Treesize to locate the used space, but I could not get the download to work. I also tried to use partition magic to Combine the partitions, but it created a 3rd unallocated partion taking the space out of the d drive before it failed (see attached screen shot) What do i do?
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David,
Just out of interest, what is the drive model of the 250GB drive and what brand laptop do you use?
I ask as you might have noticed there is one other person here who is having a problem with a WD 250GB drive in that the ME CD won't recognise his drive.
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Colin,
The unallocated partition is definitely not the problem. I accidently created that when I tried to merge the 2 partitions using Partition Magic. Because I do not have any space left on the c drive partion, Partition magic could not complete. The unallocated partition came out of the d drive (system partition).
The laptop is an older IBM T42. The WD drive is a PATA Scorpio Blue.
I think the old disk was compressed. I had support connect to my Computer and they view all files looking to see where the space was being used, but could not find it. I asked them if it could be a corrupt MBR and they said absolutely not since I was able to boot up.
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I did not wipe the old HD. I am not sure why but it just won't boot now (all the contents should still be there).
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