[dba-Tech] Thinkpad

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-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 12:51 PM
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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-----
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[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-----
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[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.
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