Drive Upgrade with Acronis BIOS Error

[George W. Barrowcliff]

Using Win XP Pro on an IBM Thinkcentre w/40 gb drive.

I backed up the 40gb to a USB drive using Acronis 10 and made a boot CD.

I replaced the 40 gb with a new 320 gb and booted to acronis on the CD.

Restored the C: partition, rebooted and received a BIOS error about the hard
drive change, saved config and rebooted with no errors.

Everything seems to be working OK but about every 2nd or third time I
reboot, I get the same hard disk error from the bios (1776 I think).
Continue to boot works ok and still no sign of a problem once I get into
execution.

Any suggestions as to why the error pops up erratically? and is there a
utility that would verify the upgrade is successful other than running a few
programs? I ran the Office 'Detect and Repair' that validates all the
office components successfully with no detected problems.

I would just like some confidence that when I button this system all back up
it is as good as new.

TIA, GWB

 

[GHalleck]

Using Win XP Pro on an IBM Thinkcentre w/40 gb drive.

I backed up the 40gb to a USB drive using Acronis 10 and made a boot CD.

I replaced the 40 gb with a new 320 gb and booted to acronis on the CD.

Restored the C: partition, rebooted and received a BIOS error about the hard
drive change, saved config and rebooted with no errors.

Everything seems to be working OK but about every 2nd or third time I
reboot, I get the same hard disk error from the bios (1776 I think).
Continue to boot works ok and still no sign of a problem once I get into
execution.

Any suggestions as to why the error pops up erratically? and is there a
utility that would verify the upgrade is successful other than running a few
programs? I ran the Office 'Detect and Repair' that validates all the
office components successfully with no detected problems.

I would just like some confidence that when I button this system all back up
it is as good as new.

TIA, GWB

The problem here may be a result of an older bios in the computer.
Get a bios update from IBM (or Lenovo). If none available, the most
viable alternative would be to do a clean installation of Windows XP
to a system partition of less than 120 GB and then creating additional
logical drives in the extended partition of the remaining space.

 

[JS]

It sounds like your PC's BIOS does not support 48Bit LBA.
Check the vendor for availability of a BIOS update.
You will also need SP1 or SP2 for Windows XP to support drives larger than
137GB.

48Bit LBA Info:
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

Also see MS article:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp

You can verify if your PC does or does not support large drives (48Bit LBA)
by using a utility named HD Tune: http://www.hdtune.com/
Download, install and then run HD Tune, then click on the 'Info' tab.
Is there a check mark in the 48Bit-address box? If it is not checked then
your PC most likely does not support 48Bit LBA.

Also there is Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Note: Belarc identifies the IDE/ATA control (part number) on your
motherboard,
you then need to Google this part number to find if the controller/chipset
identified by Belarc supports 48Bit LBA.

JS