Laptop Ghost Problems

[dmackinnon]

I have tried using a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE HDD Adapter and ghost. I have used a desktop with the adapter and a laptop hdd attached to each. I am using Symantec Ghost. I am running into a problem I believe is the IBM Predesktop area. I have successfully cloned the source drive to the destination drive. When I place the newly cloned hdd back in the laptop I receive a blinking cursor. I have tried the same procedure with a dell and it works fine. I then took the original (source)drive and placed in the same laptop and it works. I can then take the drive that presented me with the blinking cursor and place it back in the desktop and access the files and verify that the folders are present from the source drive. I do not believe it is a ghost problem but an IBM Laptop Issue.

to no suprise IBM will not support this issue but tell me that it could be the IBM predesktop program. I then disabled it and receive the same result.

[SeanM]

Your problem is probably one of drive geometry. The desktop you are connecting to is configuring the drive using geometry settings that are not recognized by the thinkpad.

Try manually configuring the drive in the desktop bios using the settings printed on the drive.

[dclee012]

when i first saw the title of this thread i thought it was some supernatural entity living in your laptop haha... latop ghost.. wooOOoooO! WOOOoooOoo!!