Boot failure after hard drive upgrade

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I am trying to upgrade the 80 GB hard drive of my Lenovo T61p notebook to a new 500 GB drive. The drive has 4 NTFS partitionsand one FAT32 Lenovo utility and system recovery partition that is not visible to the Windows OS. The OS is Windows XP Prof. This is what I have done so far:

I created an image that includes all partitions of the original drive as well as the MBR. After exchanging the HD I started the system using the True Image recovery CD, and I have restored all partitions and the MBR. However, after finishing this process, the notebook won't boot from the new HD. Than I repeated the entire process, leaving out the Lenovo utility partition - same result.

Finally I performed a restore of the original system state from the Lenovo recovery CDs that came with the notebook. It installed on the new drive and booted without any problems. Then I created an image of this installation and tried to restore, but again the system failed to boot after completing the restore process.

Any suggestions?

Tue, 03/22/2011 - 16:18
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Would you consider posting a screen capture of your Windows Disk Management graphical view. It might help us to better understand your system.

As part of your restore, did you also choose the "Recover disk signature" option? If not, retry your restore and choose this option which is located on the same screen where you choose the blank target disk to receive the restore and Mbr.

As the Thinkpad laptop uses a special head geometry, this usually requires that the old disk be removed and a new disk put in its place before receiving its replacement image. Your posting would seem to indicate you met this requirement.

Generally speaking, these are the recommended procedures

1.Remove the old drive and insert the new blank unformatted drive in its place.
2. If old source is being used as cloning, then place the old drive in another external enclosure.
3. Boot from the TI Rescue CD.
4. Perform either the clone or Restore a prior disk option backup from the backup storage location.
  If target is a new disk, the MBR and "Recover Disk Signature" should also be selected to be restored.
5. After completion. Shutdown and disconnect any other drives connected.
6. Reboot with only the single newly restored disk attached.
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If your target drive is not blank, after booting to the TrueImge Recovery CD, before you begin to the restore, you can use the Acronis Add Disk option and delete the existing partitions from the target disk and then begin the restore process.

Tue, 03/22/2011 - 17:11
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Unfortunately I can't try the cloning right now as I ahve to get an external enclosure first. However, I have performed the following test:

1. After installing the new drive (Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB) to the Lenovo T61p I performed a recovery of the original system state to a 'virgin' Windows XP installation using Lenovo's recovery CDs. This creates Lenovo's small FAT32 recovery partition (primary, inactive) while the rest of the HD space is included in one large system partition). After completing this installation the system would boot normally from the new hard drive.

2. Then I performed an image backup of both partitions and the MBR / track 0 to an external USB drive using the TrueImage v10 boot CD.

3. After that I restored the system partition (with or without restoring the MBR and the disk signature) using the same boot CD. While the restauration completed without any errors, the system wouldn't boot after that.

Wed, 03/23/2011 - 14:23
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Meanwhile I did some additional testing: I installed Windows 7 on the new (blank) drive, performed an image backup of both partitions and the MBR, erased the drive completely (using TI's Add Diks option) and restored the Windows 7 installation. After that the system booted from the HD without any problems.

The bottom line is that the image backup and restore process on my system works with Windows 7, but not with XP Prof. So there appears to be some kind of incompatibility issue between the Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB drive, TrueImage 2010 and Windows XP. What on earth does this tell us?

Thu, 03/24/2011 - 08:57
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Just in case anybody might run into the same troubles - these are two solutions to my problem:

- Use Paragon Backup & Recovery instead of TrueImage. After restauration to the new drive it boots without any problems.

- Use TrueImage 11 instead of version 2010 - it boots without problems, too. Fortunately I kept my old version 11 recovery CD and tried it after everything else had failed. Believe it or not, it worked.

Andreas

Sun, 03/27/2011 - 06:55