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[bigworld005]

Hi,all,

  my Dell Inspiron 6400 comes with a 

Western Digital Scorpio WD800BEVS 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache 2.5" SATA 1.5Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive.

and it starts to make noise. I bought a new hard drive , everything is the same except 160G big. I am thinking if I could transport everything on the old drive to the new one, then install the new one to the laptop and boot. Basically it is a switch. Can Ghost 15 do it? I heard that you need to buy an enclosure and make the new one as an external drive when doing copy/imaging/back up.

thanks,

t.z

[Brian_K]

bigworld005,

I'm glad you posted before cloning your HD. Do you have Dell MediaDirect? There is a button just above your keyboard with a house icon next to it. I think.

If you have MediaDirect we'll have to talk you through a special procedure.Otherwise the new HD will become truncated to 80 GB.

If all you want to do is copy your HD, you don't need to buy Ghost. There are several free apps that will suffice.

[bigworld005]

Hi, Brian,

  thanks for the quick reply. It has a Meidadirect button there as you said. but I never use it before. one thing is the 80G harddrive was once crashed when I was out of town. at that time, I have no any software at hand. so my friend checked it , said probably one sector crashed. he formated the disk, isolated the bad sector, and reinstalled XP by a common share copy (company copy?). however, now I can still see icon" Dell support center" in the right-lower corner where the clock and other stuff shows.   will this complicate things? or Can I somehow check the disk to make sure that the bad sector is still there?

regards,

tao

[Brian_K · Accepted solution]

OK. So you don't have the original Dell setup. No problems. But MediaDrirect will still be there as a format doesn't remove it. But it won't be functional. It is in a Host Protected Area.

First you need to zero LBA-3 to stop the HPA being created again on the new HD.

Here is an overview of the problem...

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/hpa-issues.htm

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.ht m

Download Roadkil’s Sector Editor.

http://www.roadkil.net/listing.php?Category=2   (Downloads, then Disk Utilities)

Unzip the file and copy sectedit.exe to a folder in your HD.

Double click sectedit.exe. In the Select Disk box choose Physical 0 and click Open. (DON’T choose any of the drive letters). Use the arrows at the bottom right to find LBA-3. It should take 3 clicks. Your sector may look slightly different to the image below but if you find the "[XLDR]" string in the lower right, that's a good clue that you are looking at the right sector.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b16/bjkdegree/lb a-3_dan.gif

Click Edit, Zero Data. Now you should see all zeroes. Click File, Save Sector. Close Roadkil. Double click sectedit.exe again, repeat the above choices and confirm that LBA-3 has been zeroed.

Let me know when the above has been completed.

Do you own Ghost 15?

[bigworld005]

Hi, Brain,

   the new hard drive is on the way, and I have not ordered Ghost.

   I read the link in your post. now I see your point .

   I believe that the media-direct are still there. for my 80G (decimal) hard drive, XP shows that the total disk size is 74.5 G(binary), which is 1.8G short of the should-be 76.3G. the difference is 1.8G, about the size of Dell Mediadirect program. and after I turn off the laptop and press the Mediadirect button, there is a media-direct image show up. however, I can not get it to play a DV D by pushing the front side  "play" button. I don't know what is wrong with Mediadirect.

   one more thing is that my Dell utility part and Dell restoration part are probably gone, because the show-up disk szie should be smaller than 74.5 if they were still there, is this a problem?

thanks,

t.z.

[Brian_K]

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bigworld005 wrote: 80G (decimal) hard drive, XP shows that the total disk size is 74.5 G(binary), which is 1.8G short of the should-be 76.3G. the difference is 1.8G, about the size of Dell Mediadirect program.

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Clever!

one more thing is that my Dell utility part and Dell restoration part are probably gone, because the show-up disk szie should be smaller than 74.5 if they were still there, is this a problem?

No problem at all. Can you look in Disk Management, how many partitions are present?

Have you zeroed LBA-3?

You will need a 2.5" laptop HD enclosure for your HD which I think is SATA. You had better pull it out and look. The old, yes the 80 GB HD, goes in the enclosure. The new HD, the 160 GB one is installed internally. This way the new HD is seen in its correct geometry during the clone. Don't do anything to the new HD. Leave it blank.

I suggest you use the free CopyWipe for DOS. (Not the Windows version)

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php

Unzip the downloaded file. Double click makedisk.exe, run through the menus. Don't tick any "Change Wiping defaults". For Select Target, choose the drive letter of your CD burner.
 
Install the new HD in your laptop. (It's OK if it is unpartitioned and empty. No problem either if it contains data. That will be deleted).

Place the old HD in your USB enclosure. Boot from the CopyWipe for DOS CD. Select Copy a Hard Drive. The Source HD should be USB2 HD but press F6 to confirm the partition structure is consistent with that HD. The Target HD should be BIOS HD (direct), HD 0 but press F6 to confirm the partition structure is consistent with that HD. Choose Scale Size. This choice fills the new HD. etc
 
Don't worry about messing it up. You can always do it again. But BEWARE. Some people have stupidly cloned in the wrong direction. Using the F6 options will prevent that error.
 
When the clone has completed, remove the CD and unplug the USB HD. Only then, boot from the new HD. No other HD should be connected until after the first successful boot.
 
The HPA will not be copied to the new HD because CopyWipe for DOS and all other imaging apps don't know it is there.
 

 

[bigworld005]

Hi, Brian,

  thanks for the quick reply.

  I tried to use Roadkil's sector editor, but it shows "invalid partition table, Error loading..." see the attached image. does it mean that something really messed up?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49205225@N02/4509478933/

regards,

t.z.

[Brian_K]

Nice image but that is LBA-0. Did you get your error on LBA-3 or LBA-0?

Lucky you didn't zero LBA-0. Life would be over.

[bigworld005]

Hi, Brian,

  the hard drive partition is shown below

[Brian_K]

bigworld005,

It could be some hours before your image is approved for general exhibition. How are you going with Roadkil? That LBA-0 was normal. Can you get to LBA-3?