Hard drive upgrade?

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jjfcpa · #1 Post by **jjfcpa** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:47 am

This has to be a very common question, but I'll ask it again.

I want to upgrade the hard drive on a new T43 that I am expecting today. Although it comes with an 80 gig drive, I want to put in a new 100 gig drive.

Can I simply create new recovery CD's (using the option in Start - Programs - Access IBM - Create Recovery CD's), replace the hard drive, and then use the recovery CD's to get back to square one?

I think I tried this in the past but ran into a problem because it seemed like the recovery CD's are expecting the same hard drive when it sets things back up.

Any help appreciated.

Leon · #2 Post by **Leon** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:24 am

Should work as described.

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jjfcpa · #3 Post by **jjfcpa** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:51 pm

Leon

thanks... I'll try it tonite.

awolfe63 · #4 Post by **awolfe63** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:49 pm

The other option is to get an ultrabay HD holder and then use partition magic to clone the original partitions.

jjfcpa · #5 Post by **jjfcpa** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:42 am

I tried it last night and unfortunately, I wasted about 3 hours waiting for it to complete with no success.

I created my recovery CD's... one CR-RW and one DVD-R.

Changed my boot priority to my DVD drive and turned it off, replaced the hard drive with a Seagate 100 gig drive. This drive had previously had the Windows XP operating system installed on it.

Placed the #1 recovery CD in the drive and started it up. It went into IBM's Recovery process and I selected the option to restore to the original contents.

I noticed that there is a few new options incluing one to just install the operating system. Interesting.

The recovery process went through disk #1 and disk #2 then restarted and went into the restoration of the disk image. It eventually hung and I had to shut it down and restart. The restart went into the IBM recovery screen and hung again. That was as far as I got and I eventually replaced the hard drive with the original so I could install some software.

Any other ideas?

Maybe it's just me, but I've had a terrible time with IBM's recovery CD's that you create. The ones I order from them seem to work better. Maybe I'll try that next.

awolfe63 · #6 Post by **awolfe63** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:47 am

Can you burn a DVD-R for recovery? Is this new? I ended up with 7 CDs.

Leon · #7 Post by **Leon** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:34 pm

Yes, first one inserted is CD, when it asks for next, put in DVD.

dexta · #8 Post by **dexta** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:09 am

Precisely what I did. Made a recovery CD set, went into BIOS and set it to boot from the CD/DVD first.

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