I am now working off the cloned drive.
What didn't work for cloning to a bootable system: Paragon, XXclone,
Seagate Discwizard (version of Ontrack), Acronis, Partition Magic, Ghost
What didn't work to make an otherwise-correctly-cloned drive bootable:
MBRwork, MBRtool, BootFix, MBRWizard, BootitNG, W2K Repair Console
Special mention, bad: Ghost (bootable DOS version) incorrectly thought I
had 3 hard drives attached; Partition Magic desperately wanted to
'repair' my functioning (old) HD; Acronis cranked away for 10 hours,
then threw up a disk read error, then froze.
Special mention, good: the freeware XXclone is extremely fast, easy to
use, and you can still use the machine while you do the clone, if you
are careful. It did successfully copy all files to the new partitions -
everything checked out when I checked with a live Linux distro off the
CD - I just couldn't make the partitions bootable. If it could get this
fixed it would be a fabulous program.
What worked: Thinkpad recovery CDs to create a clean install on the new
HD, Paragon to get the partitions as on the old system, then take drive
off machine and copy old content over new on a non-W2K desktop (again
using Paragon).
Moral of the story: don't lose your recovery CDs!
Thanks all for your suggestions.
David
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