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Question

What happened...?

Oct 2, 2011 9:03AM PDT

I attempted to clone my hard drive - to go from 80 Gb to 120 Gb. Followed all instructions but it did not work. Laptop threw off an error message before booting saying thatthe cloned drive is corrupt of something. I replaced the original drive and computer works. Examined properties of the apparent faulty disk. Its size had been reduced to 93 Gb. Warned me that it was not formatted, so I formatted it. But size is still 96 GB.
Tried to clone again, but source and destination drives were each identified as 96 Gb drives. So I stopped.

Any ideas what has occurred?

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