I probably was not very clear. THe replacement 500 GB drive which is the secondary drive is recognized just fine. THe primary drive was originally recognized as 500 GB but then I used Safety Drill to clone the original 160GB drive onto it. So it created 2 partitions (actually there are 2 other small partitions that were on the original Dell Drive that are there too). THe first is seen as the C drive of only 160 GB, the second partition (the D drive) is 316 GB. I guess I wanted to know if there is some way to copy the existing 160 GB partition, create a new boot drive with all my applications and data from the 160 GB on a 500 GB drive so I don't have to split it up as two drives. I'm not familiar with other "cloning" software so I don't know how they work, but I assume that I want what people usually use to copy their boot drive onto a larger drive.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:28 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check the motherboard site to see if there is an update to support larger > drives. If not you may have to use a pci IDE/SATA expansion card to get > the > drives recognized. > > Mike > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, cindy brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > After these drives died, I was getting warnings about my primary XP > drive > > so > > I immediately bought a replacement drive and another external drive for > XP > > backup. I used Seagate's Safety Drill to clone the original 160GB > primary > > drive onto a new WD 500GB internal which I used to replace the 160GB. I > > thought I would get extra space on my new larger C drive but instead I > had > > to partition it to give me another drive to use the rest of the 500GB. > So > > now Seagate has replaced the 500GB drive which went bad. I want to have > > two > > 500 GB drives instead of a C drive with just 160GB, a D drive with about > > 316GB and the new drive with 500GB. Any suggestions of how to do it? > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
