R40 Disk drive replacement

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billpapst · #1 Post by **billpapst** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:30 pm

I have an R40 with a disk drive that is beginning to make noise. The original drive is a Samsung 80g. I purchased a Toshiba MK8032GAX (80g) that is supposed to be supported by this machine however......I CANNOT get it to boot with the new drive. I have used Acronis True Image to clone the drive. I used an adapter to place both the original and the new drive in my desktop. The cloning process worked fine and Acronis says it was successful. However, when I put the newly created drive in the machine, it boots to the flashing cursor and stays there. I have tried restoring the mbr with no luck. What am I doing wrong? This is crazy! I have cloned MANY drives in other machines without a hitch.

mas98110 · #2 Post by **mas98110** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:09 pm

Hi,
I am having the same problem with my R40. I am using Ghost 2003 and have sucessfully clone to my 240X's but no luck with the R40.
I even tried a fresh install of XPP and it also hangs up on the reboot. Could the problem be in the BIOS? Help, Mike.

wolfman · #3 Post by **wolfman** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:07 pm

Hmmm...I was able to clone my R40's drive on the first try with Acronis True Image, however, I was using the ultrabay second hard disk drive adapter. It almost sounds like you may have a flaky connector/cable. I've had that happen before (cable was an ATA 66 and the motherboard was an ATA100). Just a thought...good luck...

jimzim66 · #4 Post by **jimzim66** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:16 am

Just throwing it out there, but would it have anything to do with a [possible] on-board security chip?

mas98110 · #5 Post by **mas98110** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:20 pm

Hi,
I tried to Ghost again still no luck. I think that this issue has to do with letter assigned during cloning and XP. Not sure how to get around it.
My Ghost program says "clone was successful" and the image can be opened to see the clone but it will not boot up. Mike.

andyP · #6 Post by **andyP** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:42 am

Here's a link to a previous hread regarding cloning with ghost, it can be tricky

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

Regarding cloning with Acronis; I've never had a problem, however I also clone the drive in my TP using an HDD adapter.

SeanM · #7 Post by **SeanM** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:15 pm

You have a drive geometry problem.

Either ghost the drive in your ThinkPad, or try to change the drive geometry settings in the bios of the desktop. You could also try to fdisk/format the drive in the ThinkPad, then make sure you can see the partitions when you connect the drive to the desktop.

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