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il barbi

I substituted my HD from a 160 GB Hitachi to a 640 GB WD, I made a disk-to
disk copy by means of HDclone free edition, at the end it had resized
authomatically the partitions, namely on the new HD the dimensions of the
partitions are proportional to the corresponding ones on the old HD.
Now on the old HD there was:
C: NTFS, 110 GB+32 GB free space
D: FAT32, recovery partition, 5,27 GB + 1GB free space
and on the new HD I find:
C: NTFS, 330 GB+241 GB free space
D: FAT32, recovery partition, 5,27 GB + 18,5GB free space
I checked C and by summing up the occupation of the first level directories
I still find 110 GB, where are the extra 220 GB?
il barbi
 
il barbi said:
I substituted my HD from a 160 GB Hitachi to a 640 GB WD, I made a disk-to
disk copy by means of HDclone free edition, at the end it had resized
authomatically the partitions, namely on the new HD the dimensions of the
partitions are proportional to the corresponding ones on the old HD.
Now on the old HD there was:
C: NTFS, 110 GB+32 GB free space
D: FAT32, recovery partition, 5,27 GB + 1GB free space
and on the new HD I find:
C: NTFS, 330 GB+241 GB free space
D: FAT32, recovery partition, 5,27 GB + 18,5GB free space
I checked C and by summing up the occupation of the first level
directories I still find 110 GB, where are the extra 220 GB?
il barbi

Run diskmgmt.msc. It will probably tell you everything you need to know.
 
Run diskmgmt.msc. It will probably tell you everything you need to know.

The common sense answer is that your HDClone software probably
copies existing drives but does nothing to create a new drive E: with the
rest of the available space. WinXP Disk Management will tell you.
 
Run diskmgmt.msc. It will probably tell you everything you need to know.

If you want a visual tool easeus partition manager free version works
great. I just used their free disk copy/clone program, then used the
partition manager to manage the partition size, since the distination
drive was larger than the source drive, and the disk copy program didn't
handle the partitions automatically. Using both got the disk working
perfectly. If your partitions aren't copied correctly you might want to
take a look at the easus programs, they work great.
 
Pegasus said:
Run diskmgmt.msc. It will probably tell you everything you need to know.
unfortunately it didn't, it tells the same I already know namely: C - size
588 GB, free space 268 GB
il barbi
 
Don Phillipson said:
The common sense answer is that your HDClone software probably
copies existing drives but does nothing to create a new drive E: with the
rest of the available space. WinXP Disk Management will tell you.
HDclone free edition assigns to partitions sizes proportional to the old
ones, so no free space is left alone, all of the disk space is assigned to C
and D
il barbi
 
il barbi said:
unfortunately it didn't, it tells the same I already know namely: C - size
588 GB, free space 268 GB
il barbi

I confess that I do not really understand your reporting format. You write
Now on the old HD there was:
C: NTFS, 110 GB+32 GB free space
which could mean just about anything. Is 110 GBytes the partition size or
the amount of used space? I suggest you adopt a format like this one in
order to avoid all ambiguity:

Old disk
======
Partition C: Size=x, Used=y, Free=z
Partition D: Size=r, Used=s, Free=t
Unallocated partition: Size=xxx
(numbers as reported by diskmgmt.msc)

Same for the new disk.

Did you remember to run chkdsk /F on all partitions of the new disk?
 
HDclone free edition assigns to partitions sizes proportional to the old
ones, so no free space is left alone, all of the disk space is assigned to C
and D
il barbi

Did you look at Eaesus Partition manager, also freeware, to set the
partitions up the way you want? It's very easy to resize them.

Mike
 
Pegasus said:
I confess that I do not really understand your reporting format. You write
Now on the old HD there was:
C: NTFS, 110 GB+32 GB free space
which could mean just about anything. Is 110 GBytes the partition size or
the amount of used space? I suggest you adopt a format like this one in
order to avoid all ambiguity:

Old disk
======
Partition C: Size=x, Used=y, Free=z
Partition D: Size=r, Used=s, Free=t
Unallocated partition: Size=xxx
(numbers as reported by diskmgmt.msc)

Same for the new disk.

Did you remember to run chkdsk /F on all partitions of the new disk?
ok (there is some difference with respect of the data I reported because I
quoted billions of bytes instead of GB)
Old disk:
Partition C: Size=142, Used=110, Free=32
Partition D: Size=6,27, Used=5,27, Free=1
No unallocated partition
New disk:
Partition C: Size=571, Used=330, Free=241
Partition D: Size=23,77, Used=5,27, Free=18,5
No unallocated partition
This is what I also see after rightclicking on C and D in the File
Manager. Instead if I select all files and directories in C and see
"properties" I get the same result both on old and new HD:
files 148665, directories 13370, total size 110 GB
now the problem is this difference between 110 GB and 330 GB on the new HD,
namely these 220 GB that seem to be occupied
I also ran defrag and scandisk reports all is ok
il barbi
 
il barbi said:
ok (there is some difference with respect of the data I reported because I
quoted billions of bytes instead of GB)
Old disk:
Partition C: Size=142, Used=110, Free=32
Partition D: Size=6,27, Used=5,27, Free=1
No unallocated partition
New disk:
Partition C: Size=571, Used=330, Free=241
Partition D: Size=23,77, Used=5,27, Free=18,5
No unallocated partition
This is what I also see after rightclicking on C and D in the File
Manager. Instead if I select all files and directories in C and see
"properties" I get the same result both on old and new HD:
files 148665, directories 13370, total size 110 GB
now the problem is this difference between 110 GB and 330 GB on the new
HD, namely these 220 GB that seem to be occupied
I also ran defrag and scandisk reports all is ok
il barbi

I thought that "billions" is much the same as "GBytes" . . .

The difference you observe could be due to two reasons:
a) System Restore. Turn it off, then check if the numers change.
b) Some third-party background "save" or "go back" utility.

Note also that defragging a partition will never gain you any space. It
merely re-arranges the various fragments that make up your files.
 
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