HD Upgrade

[hurschler]

Hello,

I've been trying to upgrade my x60s HD to a WDC WD40000BEVT 400GB drive. I tried two things:

1) I cloned the system partition with partimage, a Linux based partition saving and restoring utility.

The system booted but hung before the logon prompt. Attempted recovery with a Win XP install CD failed. No HD was recognized.

2) I created a RandR Recovery disk on a USB drive, then I saved all my data on the USB drive using RandR booted from the old drive - theoretically my complete partition should be presen on dhe USB drive. I can mount it in windows and the complete system seems to be there.

When I try to recover the system with RandR by booting from the USB drive I can boot RandR fine, but the WDC HD is not seen, it acts as if there is no HD present (although it is and is bootable). It does not allow me to restore the system to the new drive. Does this need to be prepared in any particular way (ie. partitions formatted or similar)?

At this point I'd be happy to restore my factory installation on the new HD, the old HD is ok with the recovery partition intact. But even restoring factory sytem to the new HD seems not to be very simple, involving burning a whole stack of CDs - is there not an easier, faster way using the USB drive?

Thanks for any help!

Chris

[Brad]

Welcome to the forum!

Go to the BIOS and change the SATA setting from AHCI to compatibility.

Brad

[hurschler]

Welcome to the forum!

Go to the BIOS and change the SATA setting from AHCI to compatibility.

Brad

Thanks!

I'll try that on Monday, I forgot to bring the power-supply home for the weekend.

best regards from Hannover,

Chris