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Robustus · 07-26-2008, 09:47 PM

Thanks a bunch for the article. I work in IT, have cloned countless drives over the years, and yet found myself spending hours trying to clone my 60GB Inspiron 9400 drive onto my new 320GB WD Scorpio. I finally found your article, used Sector Editor to zero the LBA-3 sector, rebooted into HDAC2 (which I'd been playing around with earlier), reset the max size, rebooted again, and FINALLY I see 240+GB of unallocated space in Computer Manager.

That was quite the annoying day - after experimenting with Apicorn's Drivewire clone hardware/utility and navigating it's bugs, then coming across this issue - your step-by-step doc filled in the blanks and finally led me to the solution.

Thanks again.

07-26-2008, 09:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
Robustus Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: WinXP-SP2	Re: The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive! Thanks a bunch for the article. I work in IT, have cloned countless drives over the years, and yet found myself spending hours trying to clone my 60GB Inspiron 9400 drive onto my new 320GB WD Scorpio. I finally found your article, used Sector Editor to zero the LBA-3 sector, rebooted into HDAC2 (which I'd been playing around with earlier), reset the max size, rebooted again, and FINALLY I see 240+GB of unallocated space in Computer Manager. That was quite the annoying day - after experimenting with Apicorn's Drivewire clone hardware/utility and navigating it's bugs, then coming across this issue - your step-by-step doc filled in the blanks and finally led me to the solution. Thanks again.