That does not work well... a very laborious process, and only works well for most users if all the User Directories (Administrator, All Users, User Name(s) are exactly the same... otherwise most people have troubles executing this. And of course it asks you to use a floppy disk, not explaining other methods are possible.
----- Wallowing deep in the Age of Lowered Expectations... On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh Goretsky (home) <goret...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > Have you consider running the File and Settings Transfer Wizard from > Microsoft on the T30 to migrate the settings to the T40? > > Regards, > > Aryeh Goretsky > > At 02:44 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote: > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:10:30 EDT >> From: rball...@aol.com >> Subject: [Thinkpad] Hard drive swap from T30 into T40 >> To: thinkpad@stderr.org >> Message-ID: <d22.4a8108b0.37b46...@aol.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> Hello Group, >> >> I posted here about a month ago asking if I could physically swap the hard >> drive from a T30 into a T40 without other modifications (BIOS, etc). I >> finally got back around to that project and discovered the answer is "No". >> Both >> machines are running XPP. The T30 drive is a 160gb Western Digital >> Scorpio. >> The T40 drive is a Seagate Momentus 80gb. >> >> After swapping the drives I turn on the T40 and get a blue screen that >> informs me there was a hardware or software change. Next a screen appears >> that >> gives me options to boot into safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe >> mode >> with command prompt, boot with last know good configuration, or start >> windows normally. No matter what option I select (and I tried them all) >> the blue >> screen pops back up then the boot options screen. >> >> Can anyone offer advice as to how to get around this. I need to get the >> data and programs from the 160gb T30 drive (which is only 40% full) so it >> can >> be used in the T40, with everything intact. I don't have the original XP >> CD's >> as both machines were bought second-hand, but I do have recovery disks for >> the T30 if that helps. As always your assistance is greatly appreciated! >> >> Mike Williams >> > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad@stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
