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Advice re:- migrating OS et al from 3.2GB HDD to spare 20GB unit.

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The only way you are going to know if the 3.2GB drive is the problem (apart from actually accessing the drive as the manufacturer would) is to remove the drive from this caddy and insert it in to another or put another drive into this caddy and see what happens.

You can also access the Manage option from the My Computer icon on the desktop or as you've discovered from the Computer off the start button.

Colin B wrote:

The only way you are going to know if the 3.2GB drive is the problem (apart from actually accessing the drive as the manufacturer would) is to remove the drive from this caddy and insert it in to another or put another drive into this caddy and see what happens.

The drive was OK when it was in the lappy the other day, so maybe it's failing since I've removed it.

Similarly, the caddy was OK when the 20GB drive was in it, again that was yesterday...well Friday!
Trouble is I don't have any more laptop drives, or caddies for 'em!
Just whilst I've been typing this, I got a "critical stop" notice, "Formatting failed"
Trying to do it again, the disk is now recognised as "exFAT" rather than "FAT32".
Is that progress? lol

ExFat is fine, the only problem here though is that no imaging software that I'm aware of will recognise an exFAT drive, nor will any 3rd party disk defragmenting programs.

Windows will recognise it just fine, though I thought XP needed SP3 installed to read it, maybe it came in with SP2. Microsoft were hoping that exFAT would become the next 'in thing', it's great for the new 128GB USB sticks, in fact is allows drives of upto 256TB in size to be formatted.

Red herring I think Colin.
Just gone into "Computer" and right clicked the icon for the caddy, and selected "Format", and the window that opened was detecting FAT32 again!
If I select "Properties, it shows as a Full disk of zero bytes, zero capacity, and no file system.
Double clicking it invokes a critical stop saying :-
"Location is not available"
"I:\ is not accessible"
"The parameter is incorrect"
Guess it just don't want to play!

Nearly 2am here, and frosty outside!
Think it's time to get some sleep!
I'll try converting the lappy's new drive to NTFS in the morning, see if I have more luck with that, hope so!!
Thanks for helping me,
I'll let you know how it goes.

Just an observation: Not sure if this is important but I've just been back into "Computer Management", and the drive's file system in there is listed as "RAW"

That means it is waiting to be formatted.

Hi Colin, thought I'd have one last try before bed.
This time comming at it again from the Computer Management window, but first DELETING the partition! Then following the New Volume Wizard....looked prommising, but again the "Accessing" light is on permanently, and no sound of read/write going on, I'm expecting critical stop any time now! :(

How right I was...Critical stop!
I'm out of ideas...it's bed time, I do hate going to bed without having beaten it!
Maybe tommorow!
Nite Nite.

Hi Colin,
Been at it on and off all day!
Converted to NTFS without incident.
Image made and checked....then mounted and explored, just to be sure!
SP3 installed successfully.
Image being made now, yet to be checked, mounted and explored!!

Still can't get any sense out of that now redundant 3.2GB disk...I'll chew on it a bit longer and either beat it or get bored!
I think I know which my money's on! lol

I'm really grateful for your excellent help in achieving this, I would never have managed it on my own.
Thanks,
Geoff.

Couple of questions concerning PCMCIA cards, if you are at all familiar with 'em!
This Thinkpad has two slots, one of which is occupied by an IBM 10/100 Etherjet 32bit cardbus adapter.
Totally useless, since I didn't receive the required adapter to connect the extremely flat socket in the edge of the card to a chunky RJ45 plug!
I've searched the net, eBay and Amazon for an adapter, but no success.
This is a more up to date version of the card, maybe just a paint job, I expect the adapter is unchanged, but I notice there is no longer any driver listed for the 600E machine.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4GSSWX.html
On my other old lappy running XP Home, I have a Linksys wireless PCMCIA card.
If I also install the driver on the Thinkpad and then use the card to connect to my router, will the router "see" just the card, or will it know it's in a different machine and need to be set up all over again?
If so, I would have a problem, since I was unable to set up my Clevo machine without an ethernet connection, and without the adapter for this Etherjet card, I cannot make a wired connection!

Goosed as they say!

Managed to get up & running with that Wireless card without needing a LAN connection!

No such luck with the blasted 3.2GB disk though, recon it's the digital equivalent of autistic!
I just cannot communicate with it.
I've even tried Paragon Partition manager and though it can see it, it can't format it.

Landfill!

Certainly looks that way.

Ooops! Lost everything then, internet and phone, not sure if it's Talk Talk's fault, or a nasty coincidence, since I'm just downloading every update there ever was from MS!

Ah well Colin, ya win some ya lose some!
Just grateful for knowledgeable folks like you to guide me along the way!
Thanks again,
Geoff.