NEED HELP! for hard drive upgrading on T42p

[jackky]

I am upgrading my T42p hard drive 60G 7k60 to 100G 7k100.

I am using Norton Ghost 2003 to perform a DISK 2 DISK copying on the fly, both of the drives are connect to my T42p, one in the hard drive bay, the other using Ultrabay slim adapter.

After the ghosting, I put the new drive into the hard drive bay, it can not boot up. So I use FDisk to rebuild the MBR, and it works.
After I log into, all the data and progran are there.

However, when I am testing the HPA (the Rescue and Recovery function after you press the Access IBM blue button when booting). It can not take me into the recovery environment, but I can see that hidden FAT32 partition from ghost and PQMagic.

When using ghost, I resize the partition on the new drive for the target partition.

Here is the detailes of the partition size of the two drives

7K60 60G
C: 15G
D: 20G
E: 15G
F: 1.2G
HPA: 4.5G (around)


7K100 100G
C: 25G
D: 40G
E: 20G:
F: 2.1G
HPA: 6.2G (more than R&R needed)



Thank you in advance in anybody can help about the HPA

[Johan]

I have never tried Norton Ghost, but have only used Acronis True Image, in the same setup as you describe, and with perfect result. So, you might want to try clone your drive using ATI?

You may download, at no cost, a full-functioning version of “Acronis True Image 10 Home”, usable for a 15 days trial period; get it at http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/do ... trueimage/. If you can manage to clone your hard disk within this period (which you surely can, because the Acronis software is very easy to use!), well, it’ll be completely free!

An entirely free Windows XP clone utility, which I don’t know how well functions, is XXclone, see http://xxclone.com/ I also don't know how well (or even if?) XXclone will handle the ThinkPad HPA.

Perhaps the thead "HPA Information" at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=33820 may shed some light on your problem? Otherwise, I guess that "Search" and "HPA" here at forum.thinkpads may come you with an useful hit or two...

NB: When using Norton Ghost, is it perhaps necessary (in Windows' Disk Management) to manually "Set Active" the HPA partition?? I don't know!

Regards,

Johan

[GomJabbar]

Partition does not boot after being restored with Norton Ghost - NetVista / ThinkCentre / ThinkPad General

[jackky]

Thanks Johan

I am trying to hadle this under DOS.
The last one you mentioned is actually the solution to bakcuo the HPA to optical media.

Anyway, I have already handled that
I used the recovery CD to rebuild the HPA from scratches,and
using FDisk to make the whole big C partition into several while keeping the HPA intacted and functioned.

I then use Ghost, partition 2 partition , to "migrate" the old drive to the new drive


Thank you

I have never tried Norton Ghost, but have only used Acronis True Image, in the same setup as you describe, and with perfect result. So, you might want to try clone your drive using ATI?

You may download, at no cost, a full-functioning version of “Acronis True Image 10 Home”, usable for a 15 days trial period; get it at http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/do ... trueimage/. If you can manage to clone your hard disk within this period (which you surely can, because the Acronis software is very easy to use!), well, it’ll be completely free!

An entirely free Windows XP clone utility, which I don’t know how well functions, is XXclone, see http://xxclone.com/ I also don't know how well (or even if?) XXclone will handle the ThinkPad HPA.

Perhaps the thead "HPA Information" at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=33820 may shed some light on your problem? Otherwise, I guess that "Search" and "HPA" here at forum.thinkpads may come you with an useful hit or two...

NB: When using Norton Ghost, is it perhaps necessary (in Windows' Disk Management) to manually "Set Active" the HPA partition?? I don't know!

Regards,

Johan