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    Help Upgrading Hard Drive Using Ghost v12 on X61S

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Justintoxicated, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. Justintoxicated

    Justintoxicated Notebook Geek

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    Hi I have an external USB/eSATA enclosure and want to change my hard drive from the stock 80GB to a 7200RPM 200GB.

    Anyways I installed ghost, put the new drive in external enclosure and used teh copy drive feature.

    Swapped drives and booted up.

    Does not work, the desktop stays blank, but ctrl alt del will bring up the vista menu. Anyways if I plug in the external enclosure Presto! The PC boots up fine. WTF ghost 12 sucks...

    In system-> Disk management window I see 3 disks, the new one is unfortunately labled drive D: even though its installed in the system. The old drive hooked up via USB is labled Drive C:.

    Is this the problem?

    I also noticed that Vista is detecting a 3rd disk called NVCACHE, whats that?

    How can I properly clone my odl drive minus the EISA partition?
     
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    Justintoxicated Notebook Geek

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    Well it was a little harder than I thought and Ghost is really stupid I think.

    The problem is that the destination drive cannot be formated or partitioned when making the transfer. After the drive is copied you will need to work some magic in vista or partition magic to expand the partition. It took me about 5 hours to get everything working and is till have to re-size my partition....
     
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    jaxxx Notebook Consultant

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    that sux, im in the process of doing the same thing when I upgrade my HDD, any suggestions?
     
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    Justintoxicated Notebook Geek

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    dont format or partition the drive, jut use the ghost copy feature and also select copy MBR.

    After you swap the drive in it will be partitioned the same as the old drive. Then use vista to re-partition it. if your using xp you will need partition magic or the like.
    There may be a better program than ghost to do this liek Acronis.

    I used the Dell Segate OEM Hard drive 200GB 7200RPM for $109.

    I used this enclosure seems to work off 1 USB port.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392009

    good luck.
     
    Justintoxicated, Mar 13, 2008
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