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 > > > >
