Latitude CPXj disk upgrade

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I bought a Seagate 40GB drive to upgrade my Dell Latitude CPXj, runnin
W98SE. All is well for fdisk, format. I connect it and the old 12GB
Travelstar drive both to a big machine and copy the whole old partition to
the new drive, that goes well as viewed from the big machine. I install the
40GB drive in the Dell: It starts to boot, then reports various errors. Some
are strange, e.g. it reports an obsolete .dll. Eventually it says there are
problems with win.ini and
dies, wants Windows "reinstalled". (It was never directly installed on that
drive...) This is repeatable. Putting back the 12GB drive all is well.

This procedure always worked fine for desktop type machines. I looked all
around the Dell website for any reason I would have to do something special
inn this case. Other than stuff about setting up the suspend-to-disk
partition I find nothing. It should run without the S2D partition, and I
certainly don't see why not having it (the old drive does not) should give
these symptoms, but I go ahead and use Dell's utility to create one: It says
there is not enough unallocated space on the drive for a minimal S2D
partition. So I rerun fdisk, set the basic DOS partition to just 30GB,
leaving nominal 10GB unused. The utility still says not enough room!

The hardware and BIOS seem to have no problem talking to all 40GB, e.g. the
fdisk and format are fine talking through them. Is there some trick I am
missing?

Thanks,
Bob Wilson

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Hi Bob,

You need to remove ALL partitions then run the SaveToDisk program.
Once it has grabbed the hard disk space it wants, you can then set up
your new partitions.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
~ He esteems too lightly



R L Wilson wrote:

|I bought a Seagate 40GB drive to upgrade my Dell Latitude CPXj, runnin
|W98SE. All is well for fdisk, format. I connect it and the old 12GB
|Travelstar drive both to a big machine and copy the whole old
partition to
|the new drive, that goes well as viewed from the big machine. I
install the
|40GB drive in the Dell: It starts to boot, then reports various
errors. Some
|are strange, e.g. it reports an obsolete .dll. Eventually it says
there are
|problems with win.ini and
|dies, wants Windows "reinstalled". (It was never directly installed
on that
|drive...) This is repeatable. Putting back the 12GB drive all is well.
|
|This procedure always worked fine for desktop type machines. I looked all
|around the Dell website for any reason I would have to do something
special
|inn this case. Other than stuff about setting up the suspend-to-disk
|partition I find nothing. It should run without the S2D partition, and I
|certainly don't see why not having it (the old drive does not) should
give
|these symptoms, but I go ahead and use Dell's utility to create one:
It says
|there is not enough unallocated space on the drive for a minimal S2D
|partition. So I rerun fdisk, set the basic DOS partition to just 30GB,
|leaving nominal 10GB unused. The utility still says not enough room!
|
|The hardware and BIOS seem to have no problem talking to all 40GB,
e.g. the
|fdisk and format are fine talking through them. Is there some trick I am
|missing?
|
|Thanks,
|Bob Wilson
|
|
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