Originally Posted By: Archeon
I also booted a Knoppix Linux CD to see if it showed the same thing, and it did! For some reason this disk has been transformed from a 1 TB disk into a 32 MB disk! [...] Could this be because I cloned them via the USB interface instead of connecting them straight to the SATA interface?

That's a possibility. When you looked at it using Knoppix, was that still on the laptop with the USB enclosure? It may be that the USB enclosure has some kind of terrible bug when used with very large drives. (Which would be a bit weird, as the drive is one "decimal terabyte" in size, so rather less than 2^31 sectors.)

How big does it look if you stick it in your desktop using real SATA, and boot the Knoppix CD on that? What does the relevant bit of dmesg say?

Peter