About 18 months ago, I imaged a 60GB Fujitsu hard drive onto a 90GB Avant SSD ( firmware 3.6.1) using Macrium free. I confirmed that the drive was a 90GB drive before imaging.
I was going to expand the partition after imaging, but after the imaging was complete, disk manager, diskpart, the bios, and Macrium all saw the SSD as a 60GB drive. I was in a hurry, so I let it go, since the imaging worked and I needed to give the system back.
Recently the drive came back to me and I'd like to reclaim that 50% space so that I can put windows 10 on it.
The disk still calls itself AVSM20A4 090M4 in device manager. That "90" in the name is because it is a 90 GB drive. No one swapped stickers.
I wiped all the partitions, I've tried re-writing the master boot record, converting to a GPT, messing around with boot ice, and I cannot figure out what happened.
I would low level format the drive if Avant offered such a tool, but I cannot find one on their web site.
Is it possible that re-imaging somehow freaked the drive's firmware out so that it thinks it is lower capacity now?
I was going to expand the partition after imaging, but after the imaging was complete, disk manager, diskpart, the bios, and Macrium all saw the SSD as a 60GB drive. I was in a hurry, so I let it go, since the imaging worked and I needed to give the system back.
Recently the drive came back to me and I'd like to reclaim that 50% space so that I can put windows 10 on it.
The disk still calls itself AVSM20A4 090M4 in device manager. That "90" in the name is because it is a 90 GB drive. No one swapped stickers.
I wiped all the partitions, I've tried re-writing the master boot record, converting to a GPT, messing around with boot ice, and I cannot figure out what happened.
I would low level format the drive if Avant offered such a tool, but I cannot find one on their web site.
Is it possible that re-imaging somehow freaked the drive's firmware out so that it thinks it is lower capacity now?
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