After cloning WinXP to it when new, then changing my mind and cloning 250Gb of 'data' to it, it now shows as 128Gb (or 131Gb) in 8 utilities on Hirens Boot CD; Partitioning. Fomatting ends at 99% with"Windows can not complete this format". How to recover use of 320Gb ?
Get hold of the Acronis Disk Director , that will wipe it back to basics for you
When you cloned the drive did you create a C drive on the new disk.
If so that will carry the same protection as if it was the oerating system
Are you cleaning up this drive using the original machine?
We normally take the drive out and put in another machine set it up as a slave, copy off all of the data we need to recover, then run a full format from either XP or Acronis
Has worked fine up till now
Should have read "operating" system
I am in a bit of a hurry as I am fixing my oven which has blown a connector
The last resort is to get hold of "Spinrite" which is produced by Steve Gibson Research
www.grc.com.
This will check the integrity of the drive and if possible eill repair and restore it
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Acronis was one of the utilities that saw only 128Gb.
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When I clone I just expect everything on the original disk to appear on the clone, without 'creating' anything. The O/S system I cloned belonged to a PC that was NOT in easy reach, so I did not test whether, or how well, it worked, or whether there was a C drive. VERY soon after, I changed my mind and cloned 250Gb of data over that O/S - took 6.5 hours. That data was never accessible, so I wanted to restore the (almost) new 320Gb HDD by repartitioning, and then reformatting it, but 3 different formats I have tried, all got to 99% then reported that it can't be done/finished. BIOS detection and Manage in Context menu of My Computer are the only 'utilities' that can see 320Gb. I acquired Acronis Disk director, and after using it there was a tiny (30Mb) extra unwanted partition, plus the 298Gb that I expect, but format still failed.
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