help on cloning Hard drive to upgrade drive size

[Peter]

t43 - also known as 2668

So the following applies:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HPA

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46023.html
Read page 9. "Creating an image of the hard drive"
1. Ensure that the Access IBM Predesktop Area security level is set to
Normal. This

is the IBM default setting.

http://ryxi.com/laptops/37-648-how-...tore-w-o-hidden-partition-possible-read.shtml

 

[Rod Speed]

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46023.html
Read page 9. "Creating an image of the hard drive"
1. Ensure that the Access IBM Predesktop Area security
level is set to Normal. This is the IBM default setting.

http://ryxi.com/laptops/37-648-how-...tore-w-o-hidden-partition-possible-read.shtml

Dunno, cant see why that would give the symptoms
seen, a failure of XP to boot. The most it should do
is fail to clone the HPA to the new drive instead.

 

[Peter]

http://ryxi.com/laptops/37-648-how-...tore-w-o-hidden-partition-possible-read.shtml

Dunno, cant see why that would give the symptoms
seen, a failure of XP to boot. The most it should do
is fail to clone the HPA to the new drive instead.

HPA (when enabled) changes hd geometry seen by laptop OS.

 

[Rod Speed]

HPA (when enabled) changes hd geometry seen by laptop OS.

Sure, but that shouldnt produce the symptoms seen
because the XP boot doesnt care about geometry
in the sense of just stalling with nothing on the screen.

A clone of the boot drive works fine when the
new drive has different geometry to the original.