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Has anyone tried to Ghost there IBM laptop HDD with recovery partition to a desktop then restore it to a larger HDD???

I recently tried this worked fine except that it did not image the recovery partition???

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone.

You might look at R.G.'s: "More comprehensive guide to HDD cloning" thread, just farther down the page on this forum.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Sounds more complicated than I thought it would be.

Thanks again.

Reo51St wrote:Has anyone tried to Ghost there IBM laptop HDD with recovery partition to a desktop then restore it to a larger HDD???

I recently tried this worked fine except that it did not image the recovery partition???

Yep, you found the problem. That exact issue is what drove me to write the "more comprehensive...". I have one of the HPA era Thinkpads and could not get the recovery partition to image.

Actually, my imaging (and probably yours) DID image the recovery partition - it's just in a place where it's completely unusable and irrecoverable. The BIOS can't find it when it's literally in the same sectors, as the BIOS will be looking for it at an offset from the end of the disk, and I did not have a HPA drive for the swap, so the BIOS could not hide/unhide the end of the disk drive anyway.

The simple thing, as people told me, is to just make backup images and ignore the IBM provided recovery stuff. I'm cursed with needing to know how things work, so I went out and dug out what was happening. I think...