installing 2nd HDD as primary drive?

[feathertop]

I'm buying a 2378fvu, I got a 512M mem upgrade, the only problem now is the 40G included HDD. I plan to buy a 7k60 HDD, and install it as the primary one, (use the installed 40G in a ultrabay slim adapter as the secondary HDD).

Can anyone tell me how to put the IBM recovery partition to the 60G HDD so that when I need to restore the machine, I can run it from the new 7k60 HDD?

Thanks in advance..

[pdudas]

On a T42 you can make recovery discset.
Start menu/programs/access ibm/create recovery media

It makes 2 DVD or 7 CD.
You should use USB DVD writer instead of the builtin CDRW/DVD drive.
Only one diskset creation is allowed. When you created it, you cannot make another one.

From these recovery media you can restore the recovery partition.
So after 2 hours you have a factory-content installed TP with a bigger drive.

[Marc_G]

Well... once the recovery of factory install onto the new drive is complete, the system will allow you to make another set. Not sure how useful that would be.