MacBook - bizzare hard drive upgrade issues (macbook)

Sqratch · Sqratch #1 (**permalink**)

10-18-2007, 04:42 PM

im posting here as a desperate man trying to find some answers to resolve this issue i am having. i recently upgraded the factory 80 gb hard drive to a western digital 250gb scorpio sata drive. i cloned the factory drive over to my new drive using a logicube hard drive cloner.

everything booted up fine and all seemed well except for the fact that when viewing total/available space for the new hard drive, it still thinks there is an 80 gig drive installed. when i check the hard drive system properties however, it does indeed show a 250gb drive. i called applecare and they seem stumped as well.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

mac747 · mac747 #2 (**permalink**)

10-18-2007, 04:53 PM

Is it possible that the cloner created an 80GB partition? If you go into disk utility can you create a second partition or see the remaining space?

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Sqratch · Sqratch #3 (**permalink**)

10-18-2007, 06:21 PM

BINGO! that was it! thanks for the help!

rjharary · rjharary #4 (**permalink**)

10-18-2007, 06:41 PM

how did you change the partition?

Ryan13 · Ryan13 #5 (**permalink**)

10-18-2007, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjharary

how did you change the partition?

Using disk utility.

rjharary #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 05, 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 79 Mac Specs: kooBcaM 13"	10-18-2007, 06:41 PM how did you change the partition? Use the Rep System!
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Sqratch #1 (permalink)
Member Since: May 04, 2007 Posts: 4	10-18-2007, 04:42 PM im posting here as a desperate man trying to find some answers to resolve this issue i am having. i recently upgraded the factory 80 gb hard drive to a western digital 250gb scorpio sata drive. i cloned the factory drive over to my new drive using a logicube hard drive cloner. everything booted up fine and all seemed well except for the fact that when viewing total/available space for the new hard drive, it still thinks there is an 80 gig drive installed. when i check the hard drive system properties however, it does indeed show a 250gb drive. i called applecare and they seem stumped as well. any help would be greatly appreciated!
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mac747 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 01, 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 385 Mac Specs: 2.2GHZ Macbook Pro - 4GB RAM - 500GB HD	10-18-2007, 04:53 PM Is it possible that the cloner created an 80GB partition? If you go into disk utility can you create a second partition or see the remaining space? T
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