Brad wrote:What I do is start the Acronis Rescue Media from the CD or a USB flash drive.

I have also never been successful cloning a drive while running Windows.

Start Windows and then Acronis and create the Rescue Media.

Brad

This worked! Thanks!

Sorry to hear of your trouble. There is much discussion on this forum of this exact problem. I have never been able to solve the blinking cursor problem. Some have suggested Microsoft utilites as well as other boot fixes. Sorry to say that none have worked for me and I have tried many. What I can s...

You may try se the thread T42 blinking cursor issue [/u] and the links pointed to therein - your problem sounds related... In the case of using Ghost, did you remember to use the "-ib" switch? See e.g. Thinkpad Won't Boot After Using Norton Ghost [/u] or Partition does not boot after being restored...

I also failed to mention, I tried Norton Ghost as well, got the same blinking dash.

Not too long ago, I purchased a Western Digital Scorpio 160GB HD. I successfully cloned my old HD onto the new one, and everything was working great except for this very intermittent "tick" noise. I did some research on it and came to the conclusion that it wasn't technically a defective drive. WD i...

basketb wrote:Install the latest bios and, if you have Win XP Pro installed, make sure you have at least SP1; SP2 is better (I would stay away from SP3). I have no clue about other operating systems.

The BIOS update did it, thanks!

basketb wrote:Sounds like your system doesn't support 48 bit LBA http://www.48bitlba.com. Could be bios and/or OS related.

Well I have a T42 2378-FVU, how do I find out if my system is/is not supported by 48 bit LBA?

This is going to be long I suppose... I cloned my old HD (30gb) onto a 160gb HD using Acronis True Image 11. When I went to clone the drive, Acronis originally set the hidden partition on the new drive to be around 18gb, which is ridiculous and a waste of space. So I set it back to around 5gb, leavi...