Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Oct 19 15:09:10 CDT 2009
John: It might be a BIOS issue but why would the ThinkPad be so different but who knows. The drive could also be encrypted to the BIOS. I have heard of it but never have seen it done. I have done upgrades on Toshiba and Dell and have never has any problems. (Later this month or next month I will be upgrading a huge number of Dells. I have no idea how many but I was told I would be managing two or three other people and the task would take a week.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 12:51 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Thinkpad Jim, Thanks. But I actually removed the original disk and hooked them both to another PC to clone them. If I hook this new SSHD to another system it will attempt to boot (but can't because the hardware is so much different-I just did it to see if the disk would attempt to boot). I run into out of the ordinary issues like this with Thinkpads and I thought maybe it had to do with some bios security issue. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:40 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Thinkpad Hi John: If the hard drive you are copying from or to is currently running as the primary/boot drive, the boot tracks will not be copied or copied correctly which means the destination drive will not be bootable. You have to do the imaging from an external boot disk/USB/CD/DVD. That can either be done from a CD boot image of PE Builder, Clonezilla, Ghost etc. You can download a fully networkable PE builder ISO, with DriveImageXML from the following link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/y48dlt ..or try the Clonezilla live ISO which will also build a boot disk: http://www.clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge HTH Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:11 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Thinkpad Hi all, I tried upgrading a Thinkpad SSHD with a larger 128GB SSHD by imaging the existing 64GB SSHD over to it. The imaging system shows everything transferred and it is bootable but the Thinkpad won't boot from it. Any ideas? John B. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com