Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

Hello,

Have you considered using a program like Acronis Disk Director or Symantec
(nee PowerQuest) PartitionMagic to convert the logical partitions inside
of the extended partition into primary partitions (or as they are set up
originally on the previous hard disk drive) and then setting the "correct"
partition as "active"?"

You may (or may not) still have to boot the computer from a Windows 2000
Professional installation disc, start the Recovery Console and use the
FIXMBR and FIXBOOT commands to properly configure the master boot record
and boot sector.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky

At 03:41 PM 1/12/2007, you wrote:

>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:28:14 -1000
>From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem
>To: <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <008701c7367f$ce975840$4932ab80@tarski>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>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 21:12:35 2007