[Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

The other day on impulse I bought one of the 100gb Seagate drives CompUSA
has on sale this week, and I've had some trouble cloning my old drive (X30
running W2K) onto the new drive. Using 3 different programs (Paragon,
XXclone, and the Seagate-branded version of Ontrack) and a USB adapter, the
drive data gets copied successfully, but will not boot. The errors I get
indicate a boot path mistake, and in fact one thing I note is that in each
case the two non-system partitions get cloned as a logical partitions inside
of an extended partition, whereas on the ThinkPad all 3 are primary
partitions. Is it worth my time to recopy the 2nd and 3rd(=recovery)
partitions manually, or is the locus of problem somewhere else? (I'm looking
for the solution that takes the least amount of my time, I don't care if the
laptop is cranking away all day.) And incidentally, why do these programs
insist on changing the partition structure when I instruct them to do an
exact copy?

FWIW, I've cloned drives a fair number of times before on other machines,
and never run into this kind of problem. - DR

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Received on Fri Jan 12 14:31:29 2007