Thinkpads Forum

bought a new scorpio disk drive 40gig , i have thinkpad 570 (2644 it says on the back). ive copied the partion from old drive to new using acronis partition backup routine trueimage. If i boot from usb (using my desktop) with usb hard disk (with new drive inserted), it boots from the usb drive (my new drive) . which means the old system files etc is all there.
Take the disk out from the usb and put it into the laptop. enter the bios the drive is there on the bios.
let it boot , ....... it doesnt .... give me 1 bleep at the point when it should loading

(no jumpers connected)

Any ideas .. ???

some will tell me im talking to myself ! ...found this on another thread

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The first partition on either a 600 series or 570 series needs to be under 8GB. If you want to dual boot, both boot partitions need to be under 8GB.

You will have a world of hurt (IE a drive that will not boot) if you ignore this requirement. It might boot the first time but you will be disappointed sometime in the future.

This limitation still exists in the most recent bioses.
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i will have to give it try because my main partition is 10gig

Nope ... didnt work .... Any ideas

You have to partition the new drive in the machine you want to use it in. Formatting it there would be good too.

Then take it out and do your copy stuff, put it back in and reboot.

The ThinkPad BIOS is known for doing strange things with disk geometries, so it won't look like the same drive at all to another machine.

Howdy,
I have 3 570 laptops with large drives. I never had any problem, but to be fair, I have never even once tried to suspend. I don't know what would happen if I tried. Anyway, my formula is to create the first partition an an ext2 filefistem and make it 60 to 80 meg in size. The second partition is swap and is 384 meg or 512 meg. The last partition is the rest of the disk(35 to 55 gig). I make it either a jfs, xfs, or reiser filesystem. It works great.

Now you have me worried. I've been using 10GB drives for a year or more. I currently have a 12GB paqrtitioned with C: at 9.2GB. Other than minor Win98 issues, I haven't had any troubles. I just read another thread that indicated drives up to 80GB were not an issue. I am planning to upgrade to a 40GB single partition and WinXP-Pro in the near future. In fact, I was about to bid on the drive tonight. I guess I'll wait to see how this thread turns out.

Tim

I just put in a 20Gb Hitachi drive and it works fine.

Any ThinkPad with a Pentium II or later does not need its boot partition below 8GB... but I put it there anyway. I have a 750P, which has a 33MHz 486 in it, and that needs the boot partition to be below 8GB. Pentium... dunno for sure, but if the BIOS will see the entire drive, or any OS that uses the BIOS for disk access (like DOS), then you can put the boot partition anywhere.

If the BIOS sees an 8GB drive, and DOS will only let you partition 8GB, then your boot partition must be in that 8GB.