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reCloning to a Seagatge Momentus XT HD

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Having removed a Seagate Momentus XT 500GB HD from the laptop in which I originally installed it, I now want to re-use it in another machine.

The original cloning using the version of True Image supplied by Seagate was straightforward and trouble free but now the disk shows up as having a total capacity of only 91.6GB! (I think this was the size of files originally cloned onto it.)

I’ve tried formatting the disk, running chkdsk on it, and just starting cloning process to see if that would work, but nothing will get it back to 500GB.

Any tips or ideas would be welcome.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Show us a screen capture of how the disk appears in
Windows Disk Management console graphical view.

If the picture shows unallocated space, this space can be utilized--easy if using Windows 7 or 8.

Hi GroverH,

Thanks for your response. I've attached the screenshot which looks to me to be showing a 91.75GB disk. It may be relevant that the drive was being used in a laptop running Windows 7 but I want to put it in one currently running XP.

I'll also have a look at your guides to see if I can become more self-sufficient.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Hi,

I thought I'd let you know that I was ultimately successful in re-sizing my disk. It took quite a few attempts so I thought I document what worked and what didn't in case it's useful to someone else.
1. Seatools for windows -> Advanced -> Full disk erase. Despite it being a Seagate disk, while this ran, it left the disk size unchanged.
2. HDD Capacity Restore Tool. Couldn't run this under Win 8.1. Ran under XP but I couldn't get it to recognize the disk, possibly because it was in a USB cradle.
3. Hitachi Feature Tool. I couldn't find this on the site given in the post above, but found it via google. Created a bootable CD. This only worked once I swapped the original disk out of the laptop and replaced it with the one I wanted to resize. This program gave the factory LBA setting and let me reset it to that. This produced around 350GB of unallocated space which I added to the 91GB partition using the Windows Disk Management utility.

Thanks again for your help.

Andrew

Thank you Andrew for the update. I'm glad you found something that worked.