Copy my Hard Drive on an IBM laptop

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I mean this post in a positive way and please don’t think I’m being nasty. Has anyone successfully cloned an OS partition in an IBM laptop to a larger HD with Ghost 14? I haven’t tried but I suspect it may be very difficult to achieve. IBM laptops have an internal HD geometry of 240 heads. USB external HDs are seen as LBA with 255 heads.

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Erik,

 

As laptops are usually single HD, a common method of upgrading to a larger HD is to place the new HD in an empty USB enclosure and perform the clone. The old HD is then removed from the laptop and is replaced by the new HD.

 

I haven't seen any reports of success or failure using Ghost for this procedure with an IBM laptop. I have seen several reports of failure by True Image to clone an internal HD (IBM laptop) to a HD in a USB enclosure. The new HD doesn't boot when it's installed in the laptop after the clone. With True Image, success is usually achieved by reverse cloning. Old HD in the USB enclosure and new HD mounted internally as the new HD is seen in its correct geometry during the clone.

 

I gather IBM, HP and Compaq laptops have 240 heads geometry so my thread also relates to these brands.

 

I'm just interested.

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Completely understand.  Normally I would just backup to an external drive, and then restore with the new drive installed.  I don't know of a cloning action that wasn't designed with desktops in mind.  One thing you could try is to format your new drive with the expected geometry and then perform the clone as you describe, but unfortunately I don't have much advice as to how you would do this.

 

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Thanks Erik. Yes, my initial post was quite vague. For upgrading to a larger HD, I’d do exactly as you have outlined. I’m just interested to hear if anyone has tried the scenario I mentioned in Message #3.

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I mean this post in a positive way and please don’t think I’m being nasty. Has anyone successfully cloned an OS partition in an IBM laptop to a larger HD with Ghost 14? I haven’t tried but I suspect it may be very difficult to achieve. IBM laptops have an internal HD geometry of 240 heads. USB external HDs are seen as LBA with 255 heads.