Problem after having cloned drive. (showing incorrect space on drive)

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  1. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    Problem after having cloned drive. (showing incorrect space on drive)


    First off PC specs:

    AMD Phenom II x4 processor - 3.4 Ghz
    8GB DDR3 RAM
    Nvidia N460 GTX GFX card
    240GB SanDisk SSD
    Windows 7 64 bit

    So here is the problem. I had a Western Digital 300 GB SATA drive that was starting to quit on me. So using an Ubuntu live CD I cloned the 300 gig drive onto the 240 gig drive (I only had used approx. 120 GB on the old drive so had LOTS of free space). It seemed to clone fine, and after removing the old drive the computer booted up fine (no errors, running super fast). Windows 7 also recognizes it as a solid state drive (it doesn't show up in the defrag list). However, I just noticed that it's showing the space on the drive as incorrect. It shows up as 126GB free of 297 GB (so pretty much the same size as the old drive). the motherboard's bios shows it correctly, and my linux CD shows it correct as well.

    Any way I can fix this in windows without a reinstall of the OS?
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  2. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    Maybe you can try to clone with Macrium free
    Try loading defaults in BIOS
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  3. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #3

    Post a snapshot of a fullscreen Disk Management Window:

    To open Disk Management, press Windows key+r, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter or click GO. Make it full screen. Expand the fields as necessary so everything can be seen.

    Vista and Windows 7: How to Use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums (says it's for Vista but also works with Win 7/8).

    Once you have the image saved, click the Go Advanced button then click on the Paperclip Icon next to the Smiley Icon. In the Manage Attachments window, click Browse and navigate to where you saved the image and select it.
    Click the Upload button.
    Close the Manage Attachments window.
    Click on the Paperclip Icon again and select the image you uploaded. It will be placed in your post.
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  4. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Problem after having cloned drive. (showing incorrect space on drive)-disk-management.png

    The first drive is my old Western Digital drive. The second drive is my SSD drive.
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  5. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #5

    What is the model number of the SanDisk SSD? Sure looks like it's 300GB.

    Try resetting the BIOS on the Lenovo.

    Power down
    Unplug from power
    Remove the Cr2032 CMOS battery
    Press and hold the power button for 10 seconds
    Put the CMOS battery back in
    Plug in the power
    Power up

    You should get a message about CMOS being corrupted, press F1 to continue, Press F2 to enter Setup.
    Press F2.
    Set date and time
    Load defaults
    Save and exit

    See what the SSD looks like now.
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  6. Posts : 1,686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and numerous virtual machines
       #6

    If what ZTrucker suggests does not fix it try scheduling a disk check on the SSD. It is possible free space is being calculated on the old hard drive and not the new. To run Disc Check see here:
    Disk Check
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  7. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Ztrucker, this is the exact SSD drive I got:

    SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB Internal Serial ATA Solid State Drive Black SDSSDA-240G-G25 - Best Buy

    The model is SDSSDA-240G-G25

    Bios is correctly showing the hard drive/space. Only windows is showing incorrectly (Ubuntu live CD shows it correct as well).

    I'm going to do a disk check now.
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  8. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Disk Check finished (had to do the check upon windows startup). Don't know if it found any errors (it was on step 4 and no errors at that point), but booted back up into windows 7 and still reading incorrect..
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  9. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #9

    That is really weird. Try posting int he SanDisk SSD forum, see if anyone there has seen this before:

    SanDisk® SSD
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  10. Posts : 5,656
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #10

    Did you try booting with only SSD connected? Did you try loading BIOS defaults as I suggested in post 2?
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