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BIOS sees 40 GB out of 100GB
Name: dzztw Date: January 28, 2009 at 04:53:47 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Hardware Problems
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Upgraded Dell E1405 with 250 GB HD. Used 100 GB Toshiba MK1032GSX taken out as USB drive. After a failed disk cloning operation, all PCs can see is ~40 GB out of 100 GB. Even it is put back to E1405, the BIOS can only detect 36.5 out of 100 GB. Tried all kinds of disk utilities of no avail. Any ideas what has happened to this HD?
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: January 28, 2009 at 08:40:44 Pacific
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What does Windows show? What SP are you running?
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 2
Name: Analyst Date: January 30, 2009 at 16:12:04 Pacific
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Your questions has some confusing points. Your talking about a desktop hard drive and a Dell laptop. Are you saying that you're using the Toshiba drive as a USB connected hard drive for the Dell laptop?
First thing that comes to mind is some hard drives have a jumper setting that will limit the sectors and the hard drive size to around 36GB in size. Check your jumper settings.
Assume that I already did an Internet search.
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Response Number 3
Name: dzzwt Date: February 2, 2009 at 15:27:12 Pacific
Problem solved. See above link. It's due to Acronis cannot handle Dell's hidden partition properly. The troubling point is that google search came up nothing. Searching Dell's forum was successful.
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Response Number 4
Name: Analyst Date: February 2, 2009 at 16:55:56 Pacific
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No search process is perfect. Congratulations on finding the solution and thank you for posting it for others who may need it in the future.
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