Laptop Hard Drive Clone Failure Using DD11
I have a Dell Laptop computer with a 70 GB hard Drive. The computer is several years old and I am looking to change out to a new larger drive. I have in fact purchased a Western Digital 320 GB Black Scorpion drive. I install the new drive in a BlacX box (to connect 2nd hard drive to laptop) and connect via USB 2.0 cabling. The computer recognizes the new Hard Drive as a 320 GB drive. Next I start Acronis Disk Director 11 and tell it to clone the original drive to the new drive. DD tells me the drive was not initialized, so I tell DD11 to initialize and now the shows drive as a healthy 320 GB drive on DD11.
Then I set up DD11 to clone my C drive, telling DD11 to automatically resize new drive and copy NT signature. DD 11 chugs along fat dumb and happy, until finally complete.
When I remove original drive and replace with new 320 GB drive - error message! This can't be good!So I place original drive back in computer - bootup, and start new drive in BlacX box and viola................. DD11 has now successfully transposed my new 320 GB drive into a 70 GB hard drive which has the added advantage of not being able to boot in normal mode, nor safe mode!
Is there any corrective actions for this? Or just buy new computer with larger drive and scrap out old computer, scrap out new drive, and scrap out DD11?

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