Details Complete of cloning T40,41,42 ect. to raw drive

[skunkwerkz]

Would someone who had sucesfully done this please post ALL details of how they did this copying the HPA intact without using recovery cd's to
put HPA in Place.

Ex: Imaging software incl ver and build, new drive location usb 2nd hdd bay primary.

Security in bios for Predesktop area Disabled or Normal I have tried all the products people said worked but it does not for me!!! So it has to be the method!!!

[Ground Loop]

My favorite drive cloning trick worked fine.

0) Disable the HPA protection in the BIOS to make it visible.

1) Boot Linux from a Live CD (KNOPPIX, SLAX, there are many). Make sure a storage medium is available, either by network or USB, and mount that for storing your backups.

2) Verify that the hard disk was detected and present. Usually /dev/hda, but on SATA models, it's sda.

3) Save the MBR (WinXP boot loader, first sector on disk)
dd if=/dev/sda of=/network/path/thinkpad.mbr bs=512 count=1

2) Record the entire partition table for safekeeping. The idea here is to make a dump of the partition table in a format you can restore later. I like sfdisk:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > /network/path/sfdisk.sda.txt

3) Inspec the partition table to see how many partitions and how big -- plan your backup storage accordingly:
cfdisk /dev/sda

4) Dump the entire partitions that you want to save.
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/network/path/sda1.huge.all-of-it bs=64k
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/network/path/sda2.probably-hpa bs=64k

5) (optionally) compress the image dumps. The FAT32 factory install compresses very well, since it's mostly blank.

As shipped, my Thinkpad had about 3GB in each partition after compression. Two DVDs on the shelf, and now I have confidence that I could restore the Thinkpad to out-of-box condition anytime.

[skunkwerkz]

I am hoping to find a trick that does not require me to use the Recovery CD's to put thee HPA in place.

loading the CD's and getting windows functioning before I clone is time consuming the only TIDBIT ibm shares about Ghost is to use IA or IB. This has not worked either.

I will be so annoyed if I find out how after.... I have run the recovery cd's
to put the HPA in place...

Skunk

[Vindicated]

The program that I and many computer techs rely on is Easy Recovery Pro. It's a profressonal grade recovery software designed to copy the entire drive sector by sector. When ever I work on a PC, specially one which files need to be recovered, I always copy the hard drive contents to another drive and work on the copy.

The program is ment to be run on a seperate machine and the backup is ment to be put on another hard drive, not a CD. But once its saved to another hard drive you can just make an image of it. I image you would still need to get into the BIOS and turn off the HPA protection.

[skunkwerkz]

My objective is copy drives with both partitions working perfectly. Just want to save time. I even have a UDMA IDE hdd duplicator that is unable to accomplish.

[climbingrose]

Is anyone able to clone HPA on original TP harddrive to another harddrive? If yes, can you please let me know the details? I'm planning to upgrade my harddrive. THanks.