I went to AccessIBM > Protect & Recover > Recovery Overview > Creating Product Recovery discs and burn the Product Recovery discs.
I purchased (from Newegg.com; check for best current prices and availability) the Western Digital WD3200BEVE 320GB 5400 RPM 2.5 ATA-6 together with an 2.5" external enclosure and USB cord (Newegg.com<http://newegg.com>Nippon Labs EN-25USB-BK 2.5" Black USB 2.0 External Enclosure) and installed the WD in the enclosure. (SATA drives are cheaper and larger capacity, but interposing another SATA to PATA bridge from the new drive to the internal Thinkpad PATA to SATA connection was too RubeGoldberg even for me and it seemed that the SATA drive with PATA adapter would not both fit in the Thinkpad drive space, but I did not physically verify this suppostion. A large, fast SATA drive with SATA to PATA adapter will install with the proper drive caddy in the CD/DVD slot.) I wanted an IBM verified drive for the upgrade but the largest Seagate (which also came with the customized Acronis clone software) was 120GB and I needed more space. I also used a VANTEC CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter when testing because it permits directly connecting external drives via USB to avoid having to install drives in enclosures until your setup is complete. Read the warning in the first customer comment at the Newegg page for the Vantec adapter, but I had no problem distinguishing the connectors. It was a couple of dollars cheaper at ZipZoomFly.com but the complete drive, external USB enclosure, and Vantec adapter deal at Newegg.com was cheaper at the time.) I booted my Thinkpad T43p (2687D5U) and attached the external WD3200BEVE via USB. I tried various partition applications with the results previously listed: both Paragon Partition Manager and Drive Copy (free versions) and the EASEUS Partition Master (also free version) worked. I think (don't have the work notes available at present) that XXCopy (free version) also worked. The Acronis clone would not boot and I wasn't able to edit the partition to make it bootable. PartitionMagic8 would only hang when it tried to read the 320GB external drive; it appeared unable to handle that large a drive, but I did not trouble to verify the exact problem. I also used TestDisk to examine and edit the partitions. With Paragon and with EASEUS, I could clone both my working Windows XP SP2 partition and the hidden IBM restore partition from the original Thinkpad Fujitsu MHV2080AH 80GB drive to the external drive. Just follow the instructions in the partition software. If the original restore partition is not visible, most of these partition applications will unhide it. Do not clone any other partitions on your original drive because the factory restore process says that it requires access to the entire drive and will format and overwrite them. Once the clone process completes, the external (WD) drive will have clones of both the working Windows partition and the hidden restore partition. Power off. Remove the original drive (Fujitsu, in my case) from the Thinkpad, remove the WD3200BEVE from the external enclosure or just disconnect from the Vantec adapter, and install in the Thinkpad. Once you verify that the Thinkpad boots off the cloned Windows partition on the new WD drive, restart the Thinkpad with the Product Recovery discs to execute the factory install restore process. It creates the factory image on the WD overwriting the working, customized, modified version which was cloned to the WD. I chose this method because I wanted a clean factory image; in my situation it was easier to reinstall the os and applications than try to find and correct all the accumulated Windows/IBM problems and I wanted a radical rearrangement of partitions, software, and data. Install partition software (or use native Windows partition routines) to partition the 320GB drive. Install the original (Fujitsu) drive in the external enclosure or connect via the Vantec adapter and install/reinstall software and copy data back to the new drive. When you boot off the new drive, the boot process will present a warning message that the drive is not standard and ask for a keypress to continue. To bypass this message (but not, I believe, a slight additional delay in the boot process), enter the BIOS when first starting the Thinkpad and change the BIOS setting which issues the wait and warning message: it's a simple enable/disable toggle setting. Press F1 immediately after pressing power on to enter IBM BIOS Setup Utility. Select the >Startup option. Then below the Startup screen's >Boot and >Network options (on my BIOS IBM 1YET65WW (1.29)) is the "Boot after the message for HDD compatibility without having to press <ESC>" option. F5/F6 toggle the choices Continue (without message) or Pause (for message). Save and exit. Done. HTH, YMMV. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 19:50:14 max danger wrote: > > > I cloned the Windows and restore partitions from my original T43p Fujitsu > > MHV2080AH 80GB drive to a Western Digital WD3200BEVE 320GB 5400 RPM 2.5 > > ATA-6 drive (from Newegg.com) via USB, then swapped the drives and > restored > > the original Thinkpad Windows XP on the new drive from the cloned restore > > partition. Paragon Partition Manager and Paragon Drive Copy tested > > successfully but I used EASEUS Partition Master; Acronis clone failed to > > boot; PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8 would only hang at the initiation of > > cloning. The downside is that this drive does not accept the park head > > command from the Thinkpad accelerometer, but the bootup warning message > can > > be bypassed in the BIOS. No other problems in the past 4 months. > > Was this on a T43? > > Also, I didn't follow what you did, exactly. > How did you clone the disk? > > And how can the warning message be bypassed in the BIOS? > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
