Hard Drive only registering 500GB after 750GB upgrade

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Hello,

I have successfully Cloned and Upgraded my 500GB hard drive to a 750GB hard drive and everything works beautifully except.....

The new 750GB drive is registering only 500GB.

The copy was made on a Diskjockey Pro we already had at work.
The computer is a Macbook Pro 17" A1212, OS X10.6.6

This is my first post I have looked but cannot find a solution to my problem, I apologise in advance if you immediately point me to a previously posted solution.

Kind regards, Andrew.
 

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Open up Disk Utility - inside Applications / Utilities

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Hello, thank you for your help,

The graphic display of volume scheme has no separate sections as in your does for a windows partition but it does have 30% of the box coloured grey at the bottom, to top 60% is blue
Disk Description : Hitachi HTS547575A9E384
Total Capacity : 750.16 GB (750,156,374,016 Bytes)

I hope this can help.

regards
Andrew
 

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If you have not used BootCamp to partition the drive - boot the machine from your OS X disc. Go into Utilities - Disk Utility and drag the partition down to fill the whole drive - then click Apply.

This is a pretty safe operation, but please back it up first.

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That's the problem with restoring from most image files. They will only restore to an identically sized partition.

If that partition was created with BootCamp - do not do the above - use BootCamp to restore it to a single partition.
 
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OK Bobtomay,

I will be off now searching for disks, if I have recently upgraded by OS to snow leopard can I use those disks to boot the machine?

regards, Andrew.
 

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Yep, that's what I'd use. When you boot, I think it's right after you select the language, you'll see the menu bar at the top of the screen.
 
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Dear Bobtomay,

thank you for all your help it may be a few days but I will let you know how it went.

Many Thanks
Andrew
 
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Err...
Did the operation.
Dragged the bar down all the way to 749.98GB,
hit Apply,
got the message 'partition will be resized' - choice was cancel or partition,
hit partition.
And got an Error Message:
Partition Failed: Mediakit reports partition (map) too small.

What do you think I should do next?

regards, Andrew.
 

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If it were me, I'd back up the drive with SuperDuper! or CarbonCopy Cloner - erase and repartition the drive as a single partition and then restore from the backup. Could also do a Time Machine backup.

You could try this fix - link. I personally, definitely, wouldn't be doing this one without a backup.
 

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Yep. Your Partition table is munged. Do as bobtomay indicated and you should be OK.
 

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