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I have a thinkpad T23 w/ a 20gig HD. I have hooked up a new 80gig
Hitachi HD via USB to the thinkpad. I have used Symantec/Norton Ghost
2003 to CLONE the 20gig HD to the 80gig HD. When the clone process is
completed, I can browse the USB 80 gig and see all my files are there!
When I replace the 20gig with the 80gig the system fails to boot (no
error message - just hangs w/ a flashing cursor - somewhere after the
initial post).
The 80gig HD is compatible w/ the T23 (latest bios revision). I have
even installed a clean win2k from my original T23 cd's on the HD and
it boots w/o any problem! But I don't want to strart from scratch! I
really want to clone my old HD to the new one!
I have tried running Partition Magic 8.0 on the ghosted 80gig and it
does fix the partition size -- but still same boot problem.
I have tried using the Win2k recovery console to fixboot and fixmbr
(not sure if that is correct file names) --- but while they always say
"fixed ok" the system still fails to boot!
The only altrernative I have not yet tried is installing win2k over
the ghost image.....
I wanted to try using Drive Image 2002 as an alternative, but
Powerquest's Drive Image 2002 doesn't
support HD's hooked up via usb! I guess I could use something like
"DUSE.EXE" from bootdisk.com (dos usb drivers...) but how would I then
execute the diskcopy???
I am at the end of the line :-(
I looked at the boot ini after cloningw/ Ghost 2002:
Here is what bootini shows:
MBR Entry 0 -- partition (01) -- 76323 MB -- HPFS/NTFS
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
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The strange thing is.... Bootini is the same on both drives - yet the
20gig boots
and the 80gig just hangs (flashing cursor on black screen)
ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED!!!!!
I am so frustrated ;->
I have a thinkpad T23 w/ a 20gig HD. I have hooked up a new 80gig
Hitachi HD via USB to the thinkpad. I have used Symantec/Norton Ghost
2003 to CLONE the 20gig HD to the 80gig HD. When the clone process is
completed, I can browse the USB 80 gig and see all my files are there!
When I replace the 20gig with the 80gig the system fails to boot (no
error message - just hangs w/ a flashing cursor - somewhere after the
initial post).
The 80gig HD is compatible w/ the T23 (latest bios revision). I have
even installed a clean win2k from my original T23 cd's on the HD and
it boots w/o any problem! But I don't want to strart from scratch! I
really want to clone my old HD to the new one!
I have tried running Partition Magic 8.0 on the ghosted 80gig and it
does fix the partition size -- but still same boot problem.
I have tried using the Win2k recovery console to fixboot and fixmbr
(not sure if that is correct file names) --- but while they always say
"fixed ok" the system still fails to boot!
The only altrernative I have not yet tried is installing win2k over
the ghost image.....
I wanted to try using Drive Image 2002 as an alternative, but
Powerquest's Drive Image 2002 doesn't
support HD's hooked up via usb! I guess I could use something like
"DUSE.EXE" from bootdisk.com (dos usb drivers...) but how would I then
execute the diskcopy???
I am at the end of the line :-(
I looked at the boot ini after cloningw/ Ghost 2002:
Here is what bootini shows:
MBR Entry 0 -- partition (01) -- 76323 MB -- HPFS/NTFS
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
Post a follow-up to this message
The strange thing is.... Bootini is the same on both drives - yet the
20gig boots
and the 80gig just hangs (flashing cursor on black screen)
ANY HELP WOULD GREATLY BE APPRECIATED!!!!!
I am so frustrated ;->