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ThinkPad T61p with 2nd hard drive installed in UltraBay instead of DVD writer. The system sees the second drive and reads and writes perfectly. When I try to configure ThinkVantage Backup to use the 2nd hard drive it reports back that it can't find the drive. Any ideas?

Is the drive formatted? I don't believe R&R can format a drive itself.

Are you trying to back up to it, or back it up?

R&R won't do the latter, the former should work.

Ed Gibbs

andyP wrote:Is the drive formatted? I don't believe R&R can format a drive itself.

Thank you for the reply. The drive is formatted and in fact has other folders on it that I read from and write to with no problems. I'm not asking for ThinkVantage Backup to format the drive. I'm asking it to save the backup info to Drive D instead of Drive C.

egibbs wrote:Are you trying to back up to it, or back it up?

R&R won't do the latter, the former should work.

Ed Gibbs

Thank you for the reply. I am trying to use ThinkVantage Backup to backup my system to the D drive, which is a 100 GB drive mounted in the UltraBay. The drive is formatted and contains other material that I access regularly and I also write to the drive on a regular basis. ThinkVantage Backup fails with the message "2nd Drive Not Found". Kind of dumb. One would think backing up to a different drive would be preferable to backing up to the same drive, Windows System Restore notwithstanding.

That should work. Is the 2nd drive formatted NTFS? Do you have another OS on it or something that might have messed with the boot record?

Ed Gibbs

egibbs wrote:That should work. Is the 2nd drive formatted NTFS? Do you have another OS on it or something that might have messed with the boot record?

Ed Gibbs

Thanks again Ed. Nope. It's an NTFS formatted drive. No other OS, and if the boot record was FUBAR I wouldn't be able to use the drive, no?