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Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia
Seagate 2.5" SATA drive. I used Acronis Disk Director which has a cloning feature. I've used it many times before without problems and don't see how it could make the drive report the wrong size in the BIOS.
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BIOS actually shows the size of the drive? Interesting. Anyhow, I do not know what caused this as I personally never seen or experienced this.
I doubt you could even replicate it yourself? My educated guess suggest it was either the drive itself or the imaging program but it really doesn't matter.
I would try low-level formatting or even better the freely available drive utilities from disk vendor's (Seagate) web site. I know a friend had the same issue a few years back and he used the bootable CD that came with the drive (same stuff available for free at the manufacturer's site which I am sure you knew already) and ran the formatting tool to resolve the issue.
One other alternative would be to use a bootable Linux CD,
Ultimate Boot CD or some other bootable CD that has bunch of related tools to do the job.
If all fails, the drive might be faulty.