[Solved] HELP PLEASE !!!!!

I have recently cloned my HDD from a 160 GB to a 320 GB HDD, initially it would not boot but I changed the boot.ini and copied a net(something) file on to the new drive and it booted perfectly. Nevertheless it is showing up as a 160GB HDD not the full 320 GB it should.

I have been searching the net for answers and most have to do with HPA, LBA and MBR, things I do not quite understand, as I am not too technically versed, but think this is not the issue.

My BIOS shows a 320 GB drive, the hard disk manager for XP shows a system partition of 298 GB (just one partition) which is fine, but my windows explorer shows a 160 GB drive. I also downloaded the HDD Capacity Restore program, the seagate tools, and other programs and they all show a 320 GB drive so there is nothing to fix with them either; nevertheless Windows keeps showing me a 160 GB hard drive, it does that both in explorer and when I go to HDD properties it shows 160 GB as well.

After reading quite a lot of articles and web pages on issues similar to this, I tend to think that there may be a difference between the Registry KEY Information Windows XP has for the drive (which is probably the cloned information from the original drive) and the real data from the drive. In other words, XP seems to see it as the old drive and everything else sees it as the new 320 GB drive.

In other words, as I see it, if you ask the HDD for info you get 320 GB, if you ask XP you get 160 GB. Could this be happening ???

Could this be the problem ??? If so, how do I fix it ??? do I have to change the KEY parameters for the drive in use ??? Can that be done ???

To sum things up, BIOS, HDD Capacity Restore, Disk Manager even CHKDSK show a 320 GB drive.

Explorer shows a 160 GB drive.

What could be wrong ???

I would very much appreciate help on this issue as I have spent the last few days trying to resolve it and it is getting quite frustrating, furthermore, I do not know it there could be problems with the new drive because of this drive size difference issue that could force me to have to reformat it, which I would prefer not to do. By the way, I'm still using the old drive as the boot drive in order to avoid using the new one and having future problems with it.

The new drive is a 320 GB WDC, old drive was a 160 GB WDC.

No problem . BTW there are many partitioning utilities out there but I recommend the free version of EASEUS Partition Manager, it does every thing you would ever want.