Problem restoring from an image to new hard drive

[sccofer]

I purchased a new 60gb hard drive and before I swapped out my old drive with the new one I burn t an image of it so i didn't have to reinstall everything on the new drive. I then installed the new one and restored the old image to it in the hope that everything would be the same only more space! Well..everything works fine, XP boots all of the old apps are there and working but Windows still only sees a 6gb drive and not a 60gb drive.

If I goto drive manager in XP it shows the total space on the drive list at the bottom as 60gb but if I then select that drive it shows me that 4gb of space are used and 2 are free, so it is still seing the old drive.

When I run partion magic same thing, shows me a 60 gb drive but when i select it says 4 used 2 free. I thought I would just resize the partion in PM 7.0 (only 1 partion on drive) so I applied all of the available free space (60 - 6) to the first partion. When i rebooted to execute the PM script I got a message saying that the drive size was to small for this operation so it is still seeing it as a 6gb drive.

Is there a setting somewhere in a property file or something that I need to change to allow windows to see the new space on this drive. Or is the only solution reformatting and reinstalling XP? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Jakespeare]

I am puzzled as well.

What I do know about copying files off of a CD-ROM is that these files ALL have their ATTRIBUTES changed to READ-ONLY, and are not like regular system files, which are usually archive, and therefore can be changed, and WILL CHANGE to accurately report system changes.

** If, the system files in XP are "frozen" (that is, READ-ONLY) and cannot change, nor adjust themselves to report accurately what you have - and actual 60 GB HD, then it's possible that changing ALL of the XP files,,,,, to not being READ-ONLY would allow a change to occur and therefore accurately read, and show the 60 GB.
Make sense ?

Other guys may have some ideas here,,,,,,,
However, I would have already pulled the plug on this project and reformatted and reinstalled.

 

[sccofer]

I am leaning toward the reformat, but I will check out the read-only idea and if that doesn't work hope someone has a solution in the next few days. Thanks!

 

[Speccie]

While not being familiar with XP, I have performed this task several times with 95, 98 and OS/2. I normally run a re-install from my original M/S or IBM disk to put a new system on the new disk and then I restore my working system to the freshly installed system. This always seem to work as it restores all the old parameters.
regards!

 

[Guest_imported]

I take it the BIOS correctly reports the drive as 60Gb...?


ROGER - GØAOZ.

 

[sccofer]

Yeah - the BIOS reflects the correct size. I am determined to get this figured out now. It seems like it should be a simple thing to fix but I am striking out across the board.

 

[fasttoon]

I had that problem with hard drive utilities and with drive image, if you're using drive image or some other backup program then there should be some settings to expand the partition. However in my experience with drive image it will not usually expand larger than the size of the original partition. (I'm probably not doing it right) I used a freeware called partition resizer which allows you to expand the partition into unformatted space and increase partition size without reformatting/installing. And that solved the issue for me, btw it doesn't work on ntfs

 

[Pccoach]

IMHO...I agree with Speccie. When using NT4 (and XP is built on that technology), using a fresh install and then doing a restore is what worked best. Try this site...

http://xp-erience.org/