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I'm trying to get an x220 to boot with a x201 image to use as a base master image. The 201 image I use is made with Windows XP. I've copied the x201 image to an x220 drive and when it boots it says cannot access drive press control alt delete.

I was able to boot to the drive though by first booting to a flash disk that was made with wintoflash with windows xp (2nd boot option).

Does the issue have anything to do with the x220 having the sandy bridge chipset? I just wish I knew why it will let me boot if I boot to flash then from the flashdrive menu boot to drive....

Is it HAL related or something else? Anyone have any suggestions

You do not COPY images, you INSTALL them using the same software with which the image was taken.

The x201 tablet image I'm using is a custom xp image developed by my company. We want to use it as the base image for the x220 because there isn't a Lenovo XP x220 image available. We were originally told by Lenovo that this should work but they originally thought we used Win 7 on our x201 image.

I used Ghost to make a backup image of the X201 then I copied the image with ghost to an x220 hard drive and it will boot on an x201 but will only display "A Disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restart" when we try to boot it in the X220 laptop.

Is this due to the chipsets being different?

It will boot if I first boot with a bootable USB thumb drive that has a boot menu to allow me to boot onto the hard drive.

This is very frustrating as it boots with the bootable thumb drive into Windows.

I don't know the X2xx machines, perhaps someone else can chime in?
When you 'ghosted' the x201, was the X201 image on an external drive (as seen from the X220) and the main drive was inside the X220?
Because, if you took the X220 HD out and 'ghosted' externally, it will not work.
IBM/Lenovo is finicky with bootsectors.