Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

There is a free program to fix that, I can't remember the name but it is
bootfix or something like that, you can find it with a Google search. It
boots off a floppy. The problem is that when you clone, the partitions on
the new drive seem to start not at 0, so the OS can't find everything.
Another way to do this is to make a full backup of your drive, using the MS
built in backup or Ghost, then do a CD recovery on the new drive, and
restore the backup. that seems to work, sometimes you need to put in the
second drive also, and literally copy the Windows of the first drive into
the second drive, after the restore, or the clone, that also works
sometimes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:28 PM
Subject: [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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