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Hi, its me again. (See 'cloning - is this correct?')

Following on from finding a problem with my Advanced dock bay not working, just as I was about to clone my T60 drive, our IT service company (in the same building) offered to clone it for me, using their equipment and external enclosure.

I dropped the drives off this afternoon and they were just delivered back to me.

Put the new 250Gb Scorpio Blue in the drive bay and tried to boot up, but just getting a blinking cursor in top left of screen.

Changed drives and booted up from old drive - no problem.

I am sure I have read about this previously, but can't find out where.

What is the problem likely to be?

More importantly, what is the solution?

Walter

Admin edit: Added link to referenced thread on the first line.

If they cloned it outside of a Thinkpad environment (e.g. in a desktop), it will not work.
You must clone with the new/target-HD in the HD drive-bay of the Thinkpad.

If they used Acronis TrueImage to first take an image of the old HD, then restored that image onto a new drive, it should work.
Does your IT dept. know what it's doing?

I just went and checked with them and they did do it outside of a Thinkpad environment, by copying the image to a computer, then transferring that image to the second drive.

One of their engineers has taken the usb external enclosure out on a job today, so we will try again tomorrow using that, with new drive in HDD bay and old drive in the Ultrabay caddy, in the ultradrive bay.

Will get there eventually!

Many thanks

Walter

Using the usb external drive for the Acronis disc, the I.T. guy cloned my HDD is about 5 minutes. How easy is that?
There I was previously thinking "Oh, I had better be careful, I will probably ruin something", when it is so simple! I do appreciate that you must make sure which drive you are cloning from and not mix them up.

I paid close attention to how he did it, as I need to clone my own disc to a newly acquired Scorpio Black 320Gb, but I need to back it up first.

Incidentally, I put the new drive in the HDD bay and the old one in the ultrabay caddy, as I have seen so many recommendations of this being the preferred method. In any event, it worked.

Roll on Christmas, when my granddaughter unwraps her 'new' T60 with 3Gb RAM and 250Gb hard drive. A far cry from when I was 11 and you were lucky to get an apple and an orange!

Thanks to all for the advice and also the patience in dealing with my questions.

Walter

What OS are you running on the T60? It may not matter with a T60, but it might.