Upgrading Hard Drive

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Gee · #1 Post by **Gee** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:31 pm

I did a search and couldn't find anything specific to my problem. So I thought I would post it here.

I have an X24. Unfortunately, I don't have the recovery CDs. I recently decided to upgrade my hard drive to a 60 Gig that I pulled from a T41. I FDISKed the 60 Gig so there are no partitions.

I pulled the original drive out and hooked it up to my desktop, I also installed the 60 gig on my desktop (using adapters) and tried Ghosting the original drive onto the new drive. (Ghost Corporate 7.5)

Obviously this didn't work. The drive does not boot at all.

Hind sight being 20/20. When I first purchased my X24 2.5 years ago, I Ghosted the original drive. So I used the image to do a restore onto the new 60 Gig.

The original drive has both partitions as FAT32. After you ID the drive, it converts everything to NTFS.

Still no go. I get an NTLDR not present.

I am sure others in here have upgraded their drive successfully. Any suggestions? I don't want to give IBM $49 for recovery CDs. Especially since I don't have a CD ROM on my X24.

Ideally, I want to clone my drive while retaining the recovery partition. But at this point, I am happy just to get the new drive installed with the recovery partition intact.

JonathanGennick · #2 Post by **JonathanGennick** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:54 pm

I use EZ Upgrade from Apricorn when I upgrade hard-drives:

http://apricorn.com/product_details.php?ID=220

Works great. Just put the new drive in the case, plug the case into your USB port, boot from Apricorn's CD, and let the EZ Upgrade software run for a few hours. As a bonus, you can put the old drive in the case and use it as a USB drive.

Gee · #3 Post by **Gee** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:53 am

Does the software transfer the recovery partition as well? I can endure a few hours

JonathanGennick · #4 Post by **JonathanGennick** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:33 am

The Apricorn software recognized that the recovery partition was there, and it sure looked to me like the recovery partition was transferred. I watched a progress bar go by for that partition.

It occurs to me today though, that the acid test would be for me to *boot* from the recovery partition. I'll try that next time I have the chance. But, honestly, I'm reasonably certain the partition was copied.

kevinc · #5 Post by **kevinc** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:36 pm

Will the Apricorn EZ Upgrde clone an XP installation so that is it bootable?

JonathanGennick · #6 Post by **JonathanGennick** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:10 pm

Yes, Apricorn will clone an XP installation so that it is bootable. I just did that, by upgrading a 40GB drive to a 60GB drive.

So far as I can tell, Apricorn is operating-system agnostic.

kevinc · #7 Post by **kevinc** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:21 am

Thanks...I know it can get tricky when switching an XP installation between drives

don · #8 Post by **don** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:35 pm

get the tool killmbr.. that will work for your problem.. after that gost again..

kevinc · #9 Post by **kevinc** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:21 am

I've only seen this described as a Trojan that will overwrite the MBR. As a result, no operating system can load.
How will that help??

don · #10 Post by **don** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:12 am

there is a trojan called killmbr - thats right. but this is NOT the tool i meant. u can find the tool f.e. here:

http://www.wintotal.de/softw/index.php?rb=53&id=1874

it will delete the partition-table on the hd and the "no ntldr" err will go away. after using the tool start fdisk again, format c etc and ghost.

greetings from germany,

don

kevinc · #11 Post by **kevinc** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:02 am

OH...THAT killmbr! Thanks, I'll check it out.

Gee · #12 Post by **Gee** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:39 pm

Does anyone know how to create the Recovery Partition from scratch?

I doubt that Killing the Master Boot Record will help the situation any. I can use XP to kill the MBR and Ghost will image the drive, but it still will not boot.

I have even tried this with a new drive with no paritions on it. Ghost imaged no problem and still it would not boot.

dmdsoftware · #13 Post by **dmdsoftware** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:21 pm

Gee wrote:Does anyone know how to create the Recovery Partition from scratch?

I doubt that Killing the Master Boot Record will help the situation any. I can use XP to kill the MBR and Ghost will image the drive, but it still will not boot.

I have even tried this with a new drive with no paritions on it. Ghost imaged no problem and still it would not boot.

I've had similar problems before with Ghost. To solve it, I just booted up with the Win XP cd, exited to DOS, and ran something like fdisk /mbr or fixmbr (something like that) and it made my drive bootable. Do this after you have restored the image to the drive.

Gee · #14 Post by **Gee** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:34 am

Yes that would get XP to boot, but the recovery partition will not be accessible with F11.

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