Unhide system partition

[WolfpackM]

I want to clone and upgrade my HDD in my Thinkpad X200 Tablet. When I try to use Acronis or Paragon to clone the drive, they both crash when copying the system partition, saying that the FAT is corrupt and has cross-linked files. How do I run CHKDSK on that partition? Is there a way to unhide it so I can assign it to a letter to run CHKDSK on it?

Also, when I clone only the data partition, the drive won't boot -- it goes to a blue screen. Is there any way to make it bootable?

I looked a previous posts on this subject and it seems that there must have been a way in the BIOS of previous Thinkpads to unhide that partition, bu there are no options for this in my X200.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

[visionviper]

What operating system?

[RealBlackStuff]

There is a setting in the BIOS to make the hidden partition visible (can't remember off-hand where at the moment).
However, messing with it (chkdsk is not the gentlest program) might make it unusable.
If you haven't made a CD Recovery set from that hidden partition, do so now.
You could then delete that partition and use the now available space for other things.