How do I clone my IBM Thinkpad 600e hard drive?
My IBM Thinkpad has a hard drive has two partitions that run very old code (fat16) in a Windows 3.11 type environment. I'm trying to clone this drive to a newer (larger) hard disk to retire old drive, and also allow me to add a Windows XP OS. My old drive has two fat16 partitions. Code auto boots from partition 1 and then executes code from partition 2.
When I run Acronis True Image on my desktop, it seems to duplicate the hard drive partitions correctly (using clone disk) but only the first partition (drive "c:") is assigned a drive letter. Second partition should be drive "d:" but instead is no assigned a letter. So when my laptop boots, it hangs. Why doesn't this work?
I then tried to duplicate the hard drive ON my IBM Thinkpad and a recovery CD I created, but it lacks the resources. It does not recognize my USB port (USB 1.1) which I have a IDE to USB 2.0 adapter and does not recognize my PCMCIA USB 2.0 port (i-Connect USB 2.0 + Serial ATA) if I plug my second drive into the card. So how can I clone my hard drive correctly? I do NOT have a version of Windows on this original hard to make a backup/restore type scenario.
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Pat L wrote:Cloning and restoring operation should be done from the recovery CD. When using the CD, remember that the drive letters might be different from those shown by Windows. Double check the drive labels to make sure you select the right source and destination.
If you change the disk, choose "manual" cloning. This will allow you to change the size of the partitions.
But's that's exactly what I am trying to do. I created an Acronis bootable media which boots directly into Acronis True Image 2012 from a CD. Is this not the recovery CD? If so, that's what I tried to do. But it cannot recognize any USB ports in order to make a clone of the disk.
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USB1.1 should be supported by TIH 2012 recovery CD.
Try selecting F8 just after the Acronis Loading..... message, you should then see a grey box with the word QUIET....... remove the quiet and write NOAPIC or NOUSB which forces the Linux Kernel to use USB 1.1.
Here is a link to other Kernel parameters that might work .
If the CD still has a SAFE option (I haven't made a new one yet) select that one as it uses BIOS calls to recognise software rather than relying on drivers. I have a feeling though that Acronis no longer provide the SAFE option.
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