Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

How are you mounting the second disk? Thinkpads appear to use some odd geometries at times, and cloning via a USB enclosure causes problems. In my experience it's necessary to use an internal 2nd HDD adapter.

-----Original Message-----
From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
Date: Friday, Jan 12, 2007 11:15 pm
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>Reply-To: David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu>

> 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"?"
>
>On the original drive they are not in an extended partition, just 3 separate primary partitions, one active. I can manually reproduce this setup with Partition Manager (which has at least the functionality of Partition Magic) by just copying the partitions over one by one, but I'm still hoping for the no-babysit solution.
>
>> 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.
>
>This didn't work. The console BSODs, complaining about the drive
>structure.
>
>I will try Acronis tonight; if that doesn't work, I'll have to try
>something more drastic, like a backup/restore.
>
>David
>
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