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Hard Drive Upgrade - Drive Size Shown Incorrectly After Installation
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<blockquote data-quote="HETS" data-source="post: 1333098" data-attributes="member: 225843"><p>I have an older model Macbook Version 2.1 that had an 80GB hard drive installed. I have just installed a Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB internal hard drive upgrade and successfully cloned my data over using Carbon Copy Cloner. The problem I have encountered is that only 91.4GB of capacity is shown in Disk Utility for the new hard drive. After starting the computer using my bootable copy via an external USB drive, I formatted the newly installed 500GB drive with the appropriate Apple formatting (e.g. GUID and Mac OS Extended Journaled) but it only shows 91.4GB of capacity and space available on the new drive. I was able to successfully clone the information from my bootable back-up of the old drive to the new drive but I just don't have the full 500GB capacity available to me.</p><p></p><p>What should I do? Is this a problem with the new hard drive or is there something I need to change on my Macbook to "see" the whole capacity of my new drive? Currently, the drive shows:</p><p></p><p>Capacity = 91.4GB</p><p></p><p>Available Space = 21.2GB (after installation of the cloned information from the old drive)</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your advice,</p><p></p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HETS, post: 1333098, member: 225843"] I have an older model Macbook Version 2.1 that had an 80GB hard drive installed. I have just installed a Western Digital Scorpio Black 500GB internal hard drive upgrade and successfully cloned my data over using Carbon Copy Cloner. The problem I have encountered is that only 91.4GB of capacity is shown in Disk Utility for the new hard drive. After starting the computer using my bootable copy via an external USB drive, I formatted the newly installed 500GB drive with the appropriate Apple formatting (e.g. GUID and Mac OS Extended Journaled) but it only shows 91.4GB of capacity and space available on the new drive. I was able to successfully clone the information from my bootable back-up of the old drive to the new drive but I just don't have the full 500GB capacity available to me. What should I do? Is this a problem with the new hard drive or is there something I need to change on my Macbook to "see" the whole capacity of my new drive? Currently, the drive shows: Capacity = 91.4GB Available Space = 21.2GB (after installation of the cloned information from the old drive) Thanks for your advice, Dave [/QUOTE]
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