I do not see how Acronis wrote to the Firmware of the drive. That is really weird.
Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:16 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Odd problem with hard drive > > At 03:03 PM 1/13/2010, Tim Lider wrote: > >Is the computer you cloned it from able to access the data on the > computer? > >If so, then it could be the dell does not recognize the 160GB hard > drive > >correctly. I have seen this many times on Legacy machines that do not > have > >LBA32 or higher drive mapping. > > This is a fairly recent computer so it should be able to see larger > drives. And when I move the hard drive back from the Dell to the > cloning system, the BIOS on the cloning system also states that the > drive is 98.5GB. Western Digital morons told that Acronis had > "cloned the size of the drive from the source drive" but of course > that's a load of crap, and when I rebooted after cloning, the drive > reported its size normally. So for some reason, installing the drive > in the Dell overwrites the firmware in the drive and sets the size to > 98.5GB. I've yet to find a way to flash the firmware on the WD drive. > > >Also, were there any bad sectors on the drive during the clone? If so, > this > >is probably why the drive is BSOD'ing. > > There were, but Acronis copied without complaint. > > T > > >
