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Upgrading T400's Hard Drive.

Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by 2hand, Oct 17, 2008.

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I just bought a 320GB hard drive and Ghost 14, tring to swap my 80GB hard drive out. I used Ghost to copy the whole 80GB to the new hard drive. When I swap the new drive, windos said couldn't find the boot file. Can somebody tell me the correct steps upgrading a hard drive with Ghost 14? Thanks~

2hand, Oct 17, 2008

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A little bit of a guess here -- try doing it without any partition resizing. See if it boots. Then use Vista to expand the C: partition.

Lew, Oct 17, 2008

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Vista does get a little finnicky when partitions get resized. If you have a Vista disk lying around (Lenovo refuses to ship them for some crazy reason) you can try and use it to "repair my windows installation". I had to do that several times after resizing my partitions en route to a triple-boot setup.

Also in Ghost (I haven't used it since 2003, but I think it is still functionally similar), make sure you are doing a drive to drive clone, rather than a file/partition copy. It is important that you send the Master Boot Record (MBR) to the new hard drive from your issued 80GB drive.

jonlumpkin, Oct 17, 2008

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