Incorrect Drive Model and capacity after Clone
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I know just enough to be dangerous. Honestly not even sure if Clonezilla could have done this.
With a usb bootable Clonezilla I did a beginner mode drive to drive clone from a Seagate 1TB drive to a 4TB WD drive. When finished the 4TB Drive drive is now detected as an 8TB Seagate. Image from gparted attached. The serial number is still correct.
Source drive is fine and I can just clone again, but unsure how I would revert the WD 4TB back to thinking it is a 4TB drive.
Interestingly earlier in the day I had cloned that 4TB to a new 8TB drive. With the shutdown when finished option. That worked as expected. I then rebooted from the USB Clonzilla and did the clone of the 1TB drive to the 4TB drive. The 8TB drive was not attached to the system at that point.
Unsure what exactly straightened this out.
I tried to rewrite the mbr with gparted and it would just fail. Plugged drive into a windows machine and it was detected correctly. So I just initialized and reformated it. Then plugged it back into the linux box and it showed the correct capacity. Cloned again with Clonezilla and it went perfectly as expected. All seems to be good now.
It's great to know you have fixed that, though I have no idea what's happened there.
Steven