Could the HPA be located between LBA 1 and 62? If so just wipe those sectors clean and should fix the problem. This is the first time I have seen this problem with clone software changing the size of the drive.
If it is not on the sectors I mentioned. You can change the Max LBA of a drive. But that takes a firmware utility to change it. 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 Lubomír Cabla > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:44 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Odd problem with hard drive > > There is a solution: > > Acronis HPA Makes the Cloned Drive Display Wrong Capacity > > http://kb.acronis.com/content/1710 > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Thane Sherrington < > th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > >
