Bundled "free" software doesn't always have all the features you would like it to have. In this case it looks like it did not have the extra code required to write a partition that is a different size that the original partition.
Software exists that will let you repartition a drive without losing the data. The most well known of these is Partition Magic ($70). Though using it on a drive that has not been backed up is not a great idea. The $70 might be better spent on a new drive. Then just copy the data from the current drive to the new drive. As you now know, you can never have enough hard drives. >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. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
