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    New hard drive cloning issues

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by agb22, Mar 22, 2012.

  1. agb22

    agb22 Notebook Geek

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    I had a WD 250gb HD in my t420 and purchased a momentus xt 750gb HD. We have a cloner at work and I had them clone my old hard drive but when I plugged in the new HD all i get it a blinking cursor. Is there a step I missed or was it not cloned properly?
     
    agb22, Mar 22, 2012
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    Kaso Notebook Virtuoso

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    Boot your T420 with a Windows 7 DVD in your optical drive. When the boot menu screen shows, select Repair Windows. Click Next on the first screen, then click Repair on the second screen.

    Likely your cloned disk does not have the boot information written properly. Windows Install will scan your disk and fix it automatically.
     
    Kaso, Mar 22, 2012
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    agb22 Notebook Geek

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    i dont have a windows 7 disc. Any other way to repair it? Can it be any windows 7 disc?
     
    agb22, Mar 22, 2012
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    You can legally download the Windows 7 Installation ISO from one of the forum threads, then burn it on a DVD.

    You need the Install disc, even for manual repairs by bcdedit command.
     
    Kaso, Mar 22, 2012
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    GomJabbar Notebook Consultant

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    Try putting the new (target) drive in the T420 and the source drive in a USB external enclosure or ultrabay 2nd hard drive enclosure to do the cloning.

    It is also possible that you need to zero out the new drive before cloning again. Try using the erase feature of Seagate SeaTools to do this.

    | Seagate
     
    GomJabbar, Mar 23, 2012
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    So I finally cloned my drive. I had to use the mirror option and not clever clone on our cloner. The issue now is I cant extend my C drive in disk management. I can extend the lenovo recovery but not my C drive. Any ideas??
     
    agb22, Mar 28, 2012
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    Hmm, you cloned the smaller disk to a larger disk. The Q partition is "right behind" the C partition. Now, you can extend Q because, logically, there is free space "behind" it on the new disk. To extend C, you must delete Q.

    Suppose you used a tool other than Disk Management (such as Partition Magic Home Edition), you could move the Q partition all the way to the very end, then extend C up to Q.
     
    Kaso, Mar 28, 2012
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