The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive!

RazgrizSeed · 04-28-2008, 08:45 PM

I have spent hours upon hours upgrading the hard drive in my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. I have done a TON of research and devoted many hours to the process.

Seeing as how the issue of cloning a hard drive in a Dell laptop, or those specifically with Media Direct, has become a growing problem: I have compiled all of my research and experience into one big help guide to help everyone I can!

I have added the file for download on this post.

Read, follow, and cure!

chauffeur2 · 04-28-2008, 09:18 PM

Greetings RazgrizSeed, Welcome to TSF!

I have read your article, and am very impressed with it.
For the moment, I will leave here in the Hardware Team Forum, for them to have a look at it and add any comments that they might have.
This article has potential for being published in our Articles section here at TSF.
(To locate the Articles Area, simply click on my Team Banner.)
We look forward to the comments from the Hardware Team.

Kind Regards,

RazgrizSeed · 04-28-2008, 09:30 PM

Sounds good.

I have a .html version if you would like it. Send me an e-mail and I can send it to you.

Also, this guide was partially influenced by th "Help! My hard drive think it's half its size!" thread.

RazgrizSeed · 04-30-2008, 06:53 AM

I just got a response from CMS products. They said they are going to start distributing the help guide to their customers having this problem.

RazgrizSeed · 06-14-2008, 08:05 PM

This is a status update. I realized that the file I have set for download is missing an included file to show the images within the article. Here is an unofficial V1.01.

Full download set can be downloaded here:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/atta...dhdupgrade.zip

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.

RazgrizSeed · 11-19-2008, 10:28 PM

Glad to know I helped. It took me months to finally get my HD upgraded. All I could find was bits and pieces of information scattered across the net. Also, CMS products and a few of their competitors are now carrying this article for distribution to their customers having this same issue.

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04-28-2008, 09:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
RazgrizSeed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition	Re: The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive! Sounds good. I have a .html version if you would like it. Send me an e-mail and I can send it to you. Also, this guide was partially influenced by th "Help! My hard drive think it's half its size!" thread. Last edited by RazgrizSeed; 04-28-2008 at 09:31 PM.

04-30-2008, 06:53 AM	#4 (permalink)
RazgrizSeed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition	Re: The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive! I just got a response from CMS products. They said they are going to start distributing the help guide to their customers having this problem.

06-14-2008, 08:05 PM	#5 (permalink)
RazgrizSeed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition	Re: The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive! This is a status update. I realized that the file I have set for download is missing an included file to show the images within the article. Here is an unofficial V1.01. Full download set can be downloaded here: http://www.techsupportforum.com/atta...dhdupgrade.zip

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.

11-19-2008, 10:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
RazgrizSeed Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition	Re: The Ultimate Cure To Your Clipped Hard Drive! Glad to know I helped. It took me months to finally get my HD upgraded. All I could find was bits and pieces of information scattered across the net. Also, CMS products and a few of their competitors are now carrying this article for distribution to their customers having this same issue.