Thinkpads Forum

Hello,

I'm getting a new T60 soon (2623D6U) and I'm planning to give to my wife my current one (20074UH). Basically, the difference between the two is that the newer T60 has SXGA+ screen and 1.5GB RAM.

I'm planning to swapping my current T60's HD to the new one and vice versa but I'm concerned if there are files/drivers that might be affected or corrupted. Anyone has experience doing this? Did you encounter any problem?

Or should I just transfer my files to the new computer manually and reformat my current T60's HD?

Or anyone has tried the Thinkvantage System Migration Assistant?

Is there anything I should watch out?

i have not tried the thinkvantage migration thing..

but i would not recommend that you just swap the drives unless the two thinkpads are similar in specs..
you can, of course, but you might wind up with more trouble than just running a recovery and loading all your apps on a clean system..

You might want to look into giving the ThinkVantage System Migration Utility a shot; although, in the long run, it is probably just easier to do a good R&R job on the disks as Bill said.

I'm in the same boat so to speak, as I just received a new 2623D6U with a Hydis panel as the TMD didn't agree with me

the specs are identical on the two machines. would the experts here recommend that I simply swap the hdd's, or should I do the R & R restore to/from a USB hdd?

I was about to reply that I would think that if the hardware was the same, it should work. But then it occurred to me that you might get into trouble with anything that uses the security chip, such as the Fingerprint Reader, Rescue and Recovery, and the Client Security Software.

Not to mention the software installer which might start to download software for the other model instead of the one it is on. Unless you go ahead and change the model number it looks up.

So far things are working well after the swap. here is what I did:

1) disabled TPM chip on both machines (thanks GomJabbar)
2) cloned hdd on old T60 using Acronis 9.0 - I bought a new SATA 7200.1 which is AWESOME.
3) updated BIOS, video driver, and WiFi drivers so that the two T60's had the same firmware (playing it safe in case video or wifi changes any firmware)
3) placed 7200.1 in new machine and that's it. Acronis performs some type of OS synchronization on the first boot up, re-boots, and everything looks good.

ps - the Hydis panel on my new T60 is infinitely better than the TMD panel on my first T60. I also far prefer the Chicony keyboard to the NMB, which I never dreamt I would be saying!