Hard Drive upgrade

[Frank308]

I have just upgraded the HD in my x60 tablet to a 160Gb WD scorpio drive. I wanted to check that I have done everything correctly as I know lenovo has some hidden sectors that caused the upgrade not to work the firt time through.

I installed the new HD in my docking station

Using Acronis True image home I imaged the old drive onto the new one
In doing this I selected what I believe to be the entire old drive, it showed me having three partitions; the main partition (approx 50Gb), Service001 partition (approx 5Gb) and some other partition that was 7Mb. I told it to expand partitions proportionally so that it said the new drive would have the main partition as 136Gb and the Service001 partition as 12Gb and no third partition.

This appears to have run sucessfuly and I installed the new HD into the computer and have been using it fine for two days now (that is windows starts up and I can run email and internet, I don't know if any special "inner stuff" such as the rescue recovery enviroment might be messed up or not).

I have not yet done anything to the old drive in case I need to fix any problems with the current set up. Does it seem that I have correctly upgraded the drive? Does the Service001 partition need to be as big as I set it, are there any advantages disadvantages to this? The white paper I read said that rescue recovery stores information there so I figured with a bigger drive it might need to store more information. Also if you add up the new partitions It sounds like I'm missing 12Gb, what happened to them?

[ryengineer]

snip....Does it seem that I have correctly upgraded the drive? Does the Service001 partition need to be as big as I set it, are there any advantages disadvantages to this? The white paper I read said that rescue recovery stores information there so I figured with a bigger drive it might need to store more information. Also if you add up the new partitions It sounds like I'm missing 12Gb, what happened to them?

1. Yes.

2. No, 12GB is too much space to waste, 6GB would be more than enough for the service partition, lenovo also releases patches from time to time to expand the space if it needs any expansion.

3. When a Byte is not a Byte.

[Frank308]

Thank you very much.