Ghost 14.0 Drive copy reduced drive capacity

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I recently purchased a Hitachi 7K200 Travelstar Hard Drive (Model: HTS722020K9SA00). I mounted it in an external enclosure and hooked it up using a powered USB connector on my laptop. The drive was partioned and formatted using the drive management tools in Windows XP Home SP3. All 200GB were available for partioning. I then attempted to copy my primary Hard Drive using Norton Ghost 14.0, and it seemingly worked fine. But after completion I could see that the total capacity had gone down to 73.16GB - exactly the amount of data copied using Norton Ghost. There was no additional space available for an extra partition. I then deleted the 73.16GB partition, but that did not help. The totalt capacity available now is 73.16. I downloaded the DFT from the Hitachi site, and used them to delete the drive and MBR. Also ran diagnostics with no errors found. DFT rates the drive at 73.16GB.
 
I really dont know what to do next. Cant get the drive back to its original state with 200GB unpartitioned space :(

Thanks for the advise. I tried to repartition and reformat, but sadly the capacity is stuck at ~73GB :( Tried deleting the Master Boot Record as well, but the drive is still reported at the lower capacity...

 

The idea of transferring the old C drive as an image onto the new drive sounds very promising. I will be sure to try it out, as soon as I get the drive up and running again.

Believe it or not, this sounds normal.  Here's what you should try:

Start over.  Repartition and reformat the external drive.  You will now have the entire disk available.

Then instead of using copy partition>partition, use partition >image.  Select the external drive

as the image location.  The image will look like files to the drive, and the remainder of

the drive will be available for whatever.