Clone Lenovo T60 75gb drive to 320 GB 3

[jlockley]

I am planning on upgrading a lenovo t60 drive to a 3320 gb. The Lenovo proprietary sector should also be transferred. There is an excellent description of the process using a second program, but I thought I would like use an external encasement (about 10 bucks at my local Cheap, Quick and Easy shop) rather than putting it on an interim desktop, which I have.
Questions are:
1) Good cloning software, of is it necessary. OS is XP, which I intend to keep for now. Lenovo provides an option titled "create migration file".
2) I assume the disk will have to be formatted and partitioned. Am I correct?
3) Or does the cloniing software do this?
4) Anything else to know before starting.

Thanks in advance.

 

[BadBigBen]

1.) Acronis and Paragon, do have great apps for that... and you could go with GParted or DDRescue (cmdline) (e.g. Parted Magic Live Linux DVD (free)) to do the imaging...
2.) nope, does not have to be... all of the above apps, should take care of it all...
3.) see #2...
4.) that would depend on how it is all setup. I would suggest, a direct hook up to the desktop, if the drives are EIDE (PATA) use 44 to 40 pin adapters, if SATA then they should just hook up straight without hassle...

on GParted have a read as to how-to:

HOW TO "MOVE / COPY" PARTITION

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/move/move.htm

GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html

which ever software you are going to use, make sure that before committing the action, that you have the SOURCE and DESTINATION correctly setup, otherwise you may end up with TWO BLANK drives...


Ben
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[jlockley]

Thanks. It's all good,then. Unfortunately I don't run Lynux on my machine, so It's going to be a different software..It wouldn't be the first time that I'd copied the destination to the source..good reminder.

 

[goombawaho]

Nobody mentioned Linux except that the one program runs FROM a Linux boot CD. Acronis boots up to its own CD as would Ghost.

The programs mentioned just run (from whatever source) and do a clone from disk A to B. The advice you were given above is sound and correct.

 

[JimInKS]

I just did almost the exact thing and used Clonzilla (clonezilla.org) which is free and open source.

Clonezilla will give you an iso file to create a bootable CD. You will need an external usb hard drive to backup the current Hard Drive to. After this just replace the hard drive in the notebook , it doesn't need to be formatted, and restore the image from the external drive.

I don't think it will re-size the partition, so you end up with a 60GB C drive, the IBM restore partition, and the remainder of the drive is unused, which is my preference anyway.

I just format the remainder of the drive as E (if you want to keep the dvd drive as D) and move My Documents folder to the new partition and keep C for just the OS and programs.

Just to note, I replaced the 60GB oem hard drive with a 320GB WD Scorpio Black 7200 RPM hard drive and the WD drive runs MUCH hotter than the original. It gets so hot we are looking at replacing it again.

 

[jlockley]

Vaya. Heat isn't something I thought about. Good point. What have you looked at so far?

 

[jlockley]

RPM's. At 7200 rpm's apparently not only create heat but draw more power. One of the positives of the Lenovo is 7 hr battery life, so it's really a consideration.
It looks as if the answer for 320 is probabl the Hitachi Travelstar:

http://www.storagereview.com/hitachi_travelstar_z5k320_review

It's 5300 rpm with a single platter (less heat, energy.) Tradeoff is that it's probably not the very best for gaming, but I need it for office work. The original battery is apparently a Travelstar, so it will pretty surely fit. It apparently has some issues with Dell models, though, according to Newegg reviews.

 

[jlockley]

Thanks gumbawaho...I will then get it.

 

[goombawaho]

BadBigBen gave you the scoop first, so thank him with a star.

 

[jlockley]

Stars all round! Believe me I did. I like stars. Stars are good. You deserve them. I am grateful.

Tek-tips seems to be having a starless week. If you check on the forum front page, there are no stars, either. Perhaps the star monster ate your stars, filthy beast.

Tek-tips is reportedly working on the issue, as the are on a couple of other problems, so I imagine you will all shine soon. Until then my thanks. As usual I finish a lot smarter than I started, when I was about to buy a new laptop. So, until the stars come out again, thank you all very much.

 

[jlockley]

BTW, click on the star on the top bar of the forum main page..Cold fusion says: "Oops! Executing the SQL statement is not allowed"

I'll check back and resubmit them, if they don't come back.

 

[BadBigBen]

no, frets there, I just got to the post first, and I am sure that others would have given the advice necessary...

I had forgotten about Clonezilla, thanks for the reminder, and that too runs under Linux...

about the purple astral bodies, well the staff is working on fixing the issue... according to what information I have, they are added to the user db, but are just not displayed...

PS: that Hitachi should work just fine, I read the bottomline of the review, and if the CONS are just that it did not distinguish itself in the benchmarks, then I could live with that...

I would also look at the Samsung's, they are priced close to the Hitachi's, and offer about the same performance and reliability...





Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[goombawaho]

Aware of the "stars problem" now and thank you.

 

[jlockley]

No. Thank you. Still no stars!

 

[jlockley]

Ahhh! Stars!! Thanks again all.
Just a quick update. Purchased Apricorn DriveWire with Drivewire software for about $29 - I figured the promised dummy process (just sitting back and playing dummie is really nice sometimes) was worth the price. Bad decision.
The connector actually works, sort of, but the software does not, insisting that it can not transfer between two drives of different block sizes. So much for the "Universal" imaging capacity advertised. No info on web (this can't be must my problem), so sprung another 30 for Acronis (well, I am saving something like 600 for a new computer, so ...) and came across a similar issue - new drive (300gb) is too small for the 80 gb transfer. I got hold ov Vikram on support chat, bless his heart, who assures me it will work as long as the new disk is installed when the data is transferred, so will try that next. I assume someone is curious, so I will post results.
In the meantime, back to the Apricorn, a little research (which done sooner would have saved me thirty bucks)indicates that even had I been able to transfer the data, all would not have been good Apparently a large numbers of users find that the disk refuses to boot as soon as the first defrag takes place. I assumes that goes as a missed bullet. At any rate, the connector is handy if flimsy, and I consider myself out perhaps fifteen bucks for the side step.

 

[BadBigBen]

Well, I can only speak for myself, I've used Paragon Migrate OS to SSD™ in the past (about a year ago or so), to move my dual boot (XP and Win7) from a 500GB HDD to a 150GB Raptor and it's been working ever since...

but yes, do let us know the outcome of your ordeal...


Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[jlockley]

will do.