The solution will not work with the drives connected via USB/FireWire interface.
If you have Windows OEM without Windows Installation CD, the best solution is to to contact your laptop manufacturer for assistance. In this case, the access both to EISA partition and to the embedded recovery software can be lost. 
Laptops usually have EISA partition, the link to which may be in MBR. (!) If the issue occurs on a laptop, there can be limitations on fixing MBR: See Restoring Windows Boot Loader Manually. MBR should be fixed, so that the HPA activation code will be removed from it. The appropriate value will be automatically entered in the "New Capacity" field Ģ. 
Click "Options" and choose "Maximum Capacity" from the list. You should see "Manufacturing values" and "Current values" on the appeared window. Click on the "Features" menu or press Alt-F keys and select "Change Capacity". Select the necessary ("broken") hard drive from the list using your mouse or arrow keys You will get the "Drive list" window after the boot process is finished. Boot your computer from the created CD. Burn the ISO image to a CD according to the rules described at. Download ISO image from under Downloads & Utilities -> Feature Tool -> CD Image. To restore the drive to its original capacity you need to remove HPA on the target drive: (!) Please read the detailed instructions on how to apply this solution: Under Feature Tool click CD Image to download the tool. This can be done using Hitachi Feature Tool (CD ISO image): HPA should be removed from the destination hard drive to restore its original capacity. This makes operating system detect wrong size of the target hard drive and report it to be of the same size with the source drive. 
Acronis True Image cannot copy HPA to another hard drive, but the product does copy the information about HPA settings stored in MBR (when actually copying MBR itself). Information about HPA parameters is stored in a special firmware chip of a hard drive. HPA is a hidden area of hard disk and is not detected by an operating system. The issue is caused by Host Protected Area (HPA) that is on the original drive. The process completed successfully, but the target drive capacity became the same as the source one, whereas it has to be larger.
You have cloned data from the original drive to a drive with larger capacity. I turned off automatic backups and rebootedįinder then reported the correct free space available.If the capacity of the cloned drive is the same with original drive, whereas it should not be, then the issue is caused by Host Protected Area Symptoms I can back this method up as it worked for me
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