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jfpenkala   03-24-2008 at 02:02:57 AM

Hi all,
I have an IBM T42 that came with a 40gb HD. I bought a 100gb Hitachi ATA-IDE drive , a USB external case and Norton Ghost 14. Here's what I've done so far:

I made a copy of the Fat32 partition and assigned it drive letter "E". This is the small hidden IBM system partition.
I made a copy of the NTFS partition and assigned it drive letter "F". This is the larger partition.

I assigned both of the partitions as "Primary".

I put the drive in my computer and have had no luck getting it to boot. When I boot from Norton Ghost I'm able to change which partition is bootable but neither actually boot up. Any help will be appreciated.



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overclockingrocks   03-24-2008 at 02:33:06 PM
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I'd say what you need to do in this case is to re do the imaging process and just put the partition with windows onto the new hard drive first. after you have it successfully booting into windows then worry about the rest or if you have that external simply hook it up and copy+paste the data over that you have on the old drive. that would be my best advice

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