120 gig hard drive

[toneywho]

I have two WD 120 gig hard drives. I bought one when I had an older
motherboard and had to use the WD Overlay to get it to work. not so with the
second HD as I have a newer motherboard. My plan was to use one hard drive
to back up the other. Every thing worked fine until I switched the one I was
using as the "daily use" hard drive. That would be the newer one. The reason
for the problem is this. I would use Drive Image to back up the hard drive
to a 30 gig hard drive as an image and then transfer the image to the other
hard drive. This all worked fine until I made the newer hard drive the one
for daily use. Then I found that the "old" hard drive would only show up as
a 33 gig hard drive when using the off-line drive image tools. Now even
though I have used the Western Digital Data Advisor tools to remove the DDO
overlay, the drive will still only show up as 33 gigs when I boot to CMOS.
The other drive shows up as 120 gigs. Why is that drive showing up as 33
gigs and how do I return it to 120. TIA

 

[Guest]

Pitch the 3rd party software,xp doesnt need it to do what you have planned.
Simply set youre 2nd drive as slave on the same IDE cable as C: Format the
hd by going to run,type:diskmgmt.msc Format with a primary partition,after
close out msc,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r In the DOS window,
agree to all,once its thru,its finished,C: is now on D: D: being the
slave,however
if asigned diffrent letter,then use that.If you want a back up,with all
youre files,
folders,music,etc.Run the file transfer wizard,set as old computer,select
what to
save,save the data in a new folder you create,after move to cd,or to D: