I really messed up, and now I would like to see if I can correct it some how.
First, the computer has WinXP Pro on it, and I cloned a smaller drive onto a larger one.
Everything with the cloning process seemed to go fine, but I soon realized that I had two problems. One problem was realized as soon as I did it, and the second problem wasn?t realized until after the first one was realized.
After cloning, I was called away, and when I came back, I started the computer with the newly cloned drive, and everything seemed fine. However, I realized that the new drive was showing two different capacities. When I would right click onto the drives properties, I would see the capacity of the old drive. When I would go into the administrative tools and look in the computer management tools for the disk tools, I saw in one area that it was showing the drives true capacity and in another area it showed the erroneous old capacity. It was also during that time that I saw that I hadn?t removed the old drive, but I didn?t think much about it until I decided to switch back to the old drive.
I disconnected the new drive and tried to boot from the old one. As soon as I had gotten into windows I realized that I had a problem with the old drive. It seems that it will go all the way up to the point to just before you can select which user to log on with. In other words, it goes through the Microsoft progress bar screen and then through the graphical light blue windows graphical screen stuff, but it stops just before it gets to the graphical list of users that can be selected for logging onto the computer. I tried this several times and got the same results. I even tried to get on using the safe mode and I still received the same results.
I?m not sure if the old drives registry was changed or modified when the computer was booted from the new drive, or what.
As far as my second problem, I would like it to show the correct capacity and feel it?s something within the windows registry is storing the old drive?s capacity information and keeps referring to it, and any true capacity information for the drive is gathered directly from the BIOS or the drive its self.
Anyway, what I?m ultimately after is to correct both problems, but I would settle for one of them to be corrected.
Thanks in advance, and I hope that I was clear with my problems.
