HDD cloning and hidden partition

[lswone]

Hi All,

I am having a hard time clonning the hidden (restore) partition on IBM ThinkPads and IBM Desktops. I am using a LogiCube clonner. I have been able to successfully clone the hidden partitions on HPs and Dells. I have contacted LogiCube and they could not help me on this one.

This is a pain because I have to upgrade on average 2 HDDs a week here at work. I get a user that wants to upgrade to a larger HDD but I am faced with either building the new HDD from scratch and replacing all the data and software, or clonning with no option for disaster recovery.

I would appreciate any help or thoughts you may have on this.

Thanks,


Luis.

[JHEM]

Unhide the recovery partition in the BIOS, clone the HD bit for bit, install the new HD and re-hide the recovery partition.

Regards,

James

[irfan]

I used acronis trueimage to clone my hd on T60. It was able to see the hidden restore drive.