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I want to clone and upgrade my HDD in my Thinkpad X200 Tablet. When I try to use Acronis or Paragon to clone the drive, they both crash when copying the system partition, saying that the FAT is corrupt and has cross-linked files. How do I run CHKDSK on that partition? Is there a way to unhide it so I can assign it to a letter to run CHKDSK on it?

Also, when I clone only the data partition, the drive won't boot -- it goes to a blue screen. Is there any way to make it bootable?

I looked a previous posts on this subject and it seems that there must have been a way in the BIOS of previous Thinkpads to unhide that partition, bu there are no options for this in my X200.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

What operating system?

There is a setting in the BIOS to make the hidden partition visible (can't remember off-hand where at the moment).
However, messing with it (chkdsk is not the gentlest program) might make it unusable.
If you haven't made a CD Recovery set from that hidden partition, do so now.
You could then delete that partition and use the now available space for other things.