Thanks, I came to the same conclusion myself actually. I guess I should make a note to use the same sized disc when cloning drives. (The PC has already been returned to the owner with a disclaimer, so I can't fiddle with the partition table anymore.)
On Jan 16, 6:59 am, Coalwater <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd say nothing is wrong and that the 30GB loss isn't any corruption, > actually its still there but its holding the allocation table for the > drive, that's how it works and you cant use that space , nothing is > wrong with your drive, and again .. that's what i think , might be > wrong > > On Jan 12, 8:58 pm, Seji <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I had a 320GB drive go bad in a Vaio PCG-281L, I ran chkdsk (/f & /r) > > on it from another PC then had it cloned to a 500GB drive, after which > > I had GParted resize the main and recovery partitions then it went > > back to the Vaio. The drive runs fine, I ran chkdsk and a repair > > (vista wouldn't boot from the data on the new drive due to missing > > files) on Vista itself, but the C partition shows up as 290GB under > > Vista (probably what is was originally) even though disk manager & > > diskpart says that it's 490. > > > Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
