It may be some sort of Acronis error then. Still, I'd like to know if formatting to ntfs again returns the drive to the full 500gb.
True, you can't do nearly enough testing without a notebook adapter ($10) and/or a USB drive adapter ($~30). http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=353&name=Adapters-Gender-Changers Vista introduces a new drive "signature" which isn't restored with a drive image with Ghost 14. Presumably Win7 will do the same. You must boot to the Vista install disk and run "repair". Often several times. And it may run a required chkdsk. I think it took me three boots, but no chkdsk. It's working fine now. I was actually thinking of pointing this out in a separate thread for those that may be curious why an image restore of their boot drive doesn't work. But then I remembered this list no longer deals with computers very much. The moderators need to tighten things up or change the name and scope of the group IMHO. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Jack<[email protected]> wrote: > Before the restore with Acronis, I did do a disk r/w error check (when it > was still "500GB" and had a FAT32X file system) and everything was fine. > Loading it into another machine will be problematic as I don't have an > external enclosure for the drive (which would really help things). > > Sorry to hear of your troubles upgrading the Vista hardware - is it the > verification process that is tripping you up? And yes, fdisk lives. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
