Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:26:11 -0800 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
The hard drive in my L110 is, I think, dying - makes loud clicking noise frequently. So I stopped using the Lib, then bought a new 30GB Samsung drive.
I used Disk Management in Win XP to create two partitions in the new drive - the first (call it c:) from 0GB to 7.5GB, primary and active, the second (call it d:) from 9GB to 30GB, primary and not active. I left an unpartitioned area from 7.5GB to 9GB for the hibernation file (more than needed, I think).
I then used Norton Ghost to back up the primary and active partition of the old drive (c:, where the OS lives and where it boots from) to the drive of my desktop. Then I used Norton Ghost to restore that backup to the primary and active partition (c:) of the new drive.
I installed the new drive in my Lib and booted up. Result? "Disk error press any key to restart".
What step have I overlooked? I hope to avoid having to install Win XP and all my apps from scratch, because that is such a tedious process. I had the Lib set up exactly as I wanted it.
By the way, I used the backup-then-restore process rather than cloning, because I couldn't get my desktop to see both the old and new drives at once, even when I had them both plugged in - they were on the same IDE cable using 40-to-44 pin adapters.
