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From: John Doue on 24 Jun 2008 16:52
BillW50 wrote:
> In news:Xns9AC7683A690BFpaugle(a)127.0.0.1,
> Pdigmking typed on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:14:43 GMT:
>> OK, I appear to have successfully transfered the data from my old
>> drive to the new drive. I can look at the new drive by connecting
>> via USB, and it has all the files. The problem is, when I install
>> it, it hangs, I just get a blinking bar in the upper left hand corner
>> of my screen. The old drive continues to work fine by the way, I
>> re-install it to work with this computer, so it's the drive, not the
>> computer. I thought the driver may be an issue but it looks like it
>> has a driver installed and it's working fine. Is it possible that I'm
>> screwing up by trying to use the USB connection instead of an IDE
>> cable? I've done all this on PCs, this is my first laptop HD swap,
>> in case you suspected. Any ideas?
>>
>> Paul.
>
> Well I didn't want to mention this as nobody else seems to talk about
> it. But formatting and partitioning a HD in an USB box creates some
> weird geometry that sticking it back in an IDE slot doesn't always
> understand. I'm thinking like when I did that with Partition Magic 8 in
> an USB box. Then put it back in a desktop. Then PM8 saw it as a a
> foreign partition that it wouldn't do anything with. But Windows could
> see all of the files within it.
>
Hi Bill,

As I have mentionned several times here or there, Partition Magic is
totally outdated today, although it remains competent in simple
situations. This problem has been mentionned several times on TP forums,
those laptops being especially susceptible to that problem for reasons
beyond me, at least the rare times I found an attempt to explain the
problem.

Using TrueImage clone function is a safe way to solve the problem, and
my experience is, it works with USB drives, inasmuch Bios allows access
to the USB drive at boot-up: the drawback is low speed since no OS
driver is loaded during the clone procedure.

Take care

--
John Doue
From: GG Willikers on 24 Jun 2008 18:06
BillW50 wrote:
> In news:Xns9AC7683A690BFpaugle(a)127.0.0.1,
> Pdigmking typed on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:14:43 GMT:
>> OK, I appear to have successfully transfered the data from my old
>> drive to the new drive. I can look at the new drive by connecting
>> via USB, and it has all the files. The problem is, when I install
>> it, it hangs, I just get a blinking bar in the upper left hand corner
>> of my screen. The old drive continues to work fine by the way, I
>> re-install it to work with this computer, so it's the drive, not the
>> computer. I thought the driver may be an issue but it looks like it
>> has a driver installed and it's working fine. Is it possible that I'm
>> screwing up by trying to use the USB connection instead of an IDE
>> cable? I've done all this on PCs, this is my first laptop HD swap,
>> in case you suspected. Any ideas?
>>
>> Paul.
>
> Well I didn't want to mention this as nobody else seems to talk about
> it. But formatting and partitioning a HD in an USB box creates some
> weird geometry that sticking it back in an IDE slot doesn't always
> understand. I'm thinking like when I did that with Partition Magic 8 in
> an USB box. Then put it back in a desktop. Then PM8 saw it as a a
> foreign partition that it wouldn't do anything with. But Windows could
> see all of the files within it.
>

I agree. I wasn't sure if that was what he was doing or not.

Would be better (& faster) to save the image to a network drive
(another machine than the 2 he's working on.)

The boot disk should enable the new machine (hard drive) to see the
saved image on the network drive.

My experience has been when imaging from a USB drive, that the new HD in
the machine, sometimes does not get the C:\ designation.
There are workarounds but it depends on the laptop BIOS, the hard drive
and the imaging software.

Easier to just do the network method.
From: Pdigmking on 24 Jun 2008 18:33
John Doue <notwobe(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:%7d8k.3649$5x5.1500
@read4.inet.fi:

Thanks John and GG. The network drive solution is beyond me at this point,
but I'll try true image, and I'll take another look at my bios to see if I
can make it assign the C drive.

Paul.
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