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I bought a 1T hard drive to replace the full 160 gb hard drive. I cloned the information from the 160>1T and it works fine except it shows it to be the 160 gb hd but while using the 1T HD. When I go to properties it does NOT show that it is the 1T. I am not sure what is going on or how to correct it.
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I am not sure how that works but I am guessing the remaining 1T hasn't been partition and format yet. Download the utility "gpart" here at cnet and run that to see what it will show.
Since you cloned it, it made the same sized partition as was found. You now have the remaining media that's "unallocated" at the trailing end of the remaining storage. Uuse the disk manager portion of the OS to regain that space for use, "merge them together". I certainly hope you used NTFS as your format. If you like, you can try using the s/w the new HD support website *MAY* have.
tada ------Willy 
You did an 'exact' clone.....meaning the output device size will be the same as the input device size.
You might want to revisit your cloning software and see if there is an option to resize to fit.
The option may have some cryptic name......do some reading.
This will allow you to use all of your larger hdd.
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