moving to a larger HD

[michael goldin]

I have a thinkpad T-60 with a 60GB HD running Vista Business. The T-60 has a
hidden service partition with a base backup (Rescue and Recovery). I want to
move everything to a 100 GB HD, hopefully without losing the base backup. I
do have DVD's with an R&R backup, which will boot. So far as I know, there
isn't any available software (eg Partition Magic) which will unhide a hidden
partition on a Vista system. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Michael Goldin

 

[Malke]

I have a thinkpad T-60 with a 60GB HD running Vista Business. The T-60
has a hidden service partition with a base backup (Rescue and Recovery).
I want to move everything to a 100 GB HD, hopefully without losing the
base backup. I do have DVD's with an R&R backup, which will boot. So far
as I know, there isn't any available software (eg Partition Magic) which
will unhide a hidden partition on a Vista system. Any suggestions are
appreciated. Thanks.

You can image the entire drive with something like Acronis TrueImage
onto a temporary external hard drive. Then put in your new drive and
restore the image.

To be on the safe side, call Lenovo tech support and ask them for their
recommendations first. Lenovo tech support is excellent.


Malke