URGENT!!! GHOST HARD DRIVE , MISSING MEMORY?

Question

I have just ghosted a laptop hard drive ( 80 gb) to another to another laptop hard drive dell ( 500 gb) and the hard drive is copied exact size. Reformatted and tried different programs but still will not go back to original size, any ideas? ??

Answer 1

lol



Sorry but it did exactly what you asked it to do.



I haven't used ghost in quite a while so I couldn't tell you the exact options to check, but here are a few things to consider:

- Did you partition the destination drive?

- Did you try Partition Magic to see if it could extend the partition to fill the whole drive?

Answer 2

the rest of your hard drive is still there. when you boot up the computer depending on your operating system: go to the disk management option. This will show you your disk. Since you did a ghost the partition that was copied was the 80gb. the rest of the hard drive space is unpartitioned. You have the ability to make a new partition and use it on your operating system or if you want to use it al completely on 1 partition you need a tool that will resize your primary boot partition depending on your operating system.

Answer 3

yeah, waqario is right, your another 420GB still exist but changed into unallocated space, you can allocate it as new partition through all the windows operating systems. If you want to resize it, like merge to the copied partition, if you running the windows 7, Vista or server 2008, you can directly through built in disk management to finish. If you running other windows operating system, I suggest you choose 3rd party tool to do it.

Aomei Partition Assistant, which is one of my recommendations:

Its free version, home edition, which is compatible with Windows 7/Vista 32 bit:

http://www.extend-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html

Its pro version, for windows 7/Vista 64bit

http://www.extend-partition.com/partition-manager-pro-edition.html

For server 2008, the server edition:

http://www.extend-partition.com/partition-manager-server-edition.html

Here is an article about resize partition, you can follow its instruction:

http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/partition-resize-windows-software.html