Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Laptop Hard Drive Help (NFC)

[David Thursby (david]

Charles,

By doing a backup to the new drive, there won't be any Windoze operating 
system on there. You need to either install windows on the drive then 
copy across, or better yet, clone the original drive to the new using 
Norton Ghost or some similar program. You'll most likely need a real pc 
and some 2.5 to 3.5 inch drive adapters. Unless of course the more 
recent versions of Ghost support usb - it's been a while since I did this.

Dave

Charles Perry wrote:
> Wonder if I could tap the brains of our PC gurus:
>  
> I have a Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 (vintage 2003-2004) laptop that
> shipped with an 80GB drive and Windows XP Media Center. I have run out
> of space on that drive. It is the standard 2.5mm size, marked ATA/IDE.
>  
> I bought a 250GB drive and an Apricorn EZ-BACKUP kit, which includes a
> USB adapter for the drive and a program called EZ-Gig II to clone the
> old drive to the new. New drive is marked EIDE, which my research
> indicates is similar or identical to ATA/IDE.
>  
> The cloning process seems to go fine, but when I swap the new drive into
> the laptop it will not boot - it gets past the BIOS screen and freezes.
> However, if I leave the new drive in the USB adapter, it works fine and
> I can read it from within Windows. Since the drive is obviously good and
> the copy process seems good, I'm guessing it's a BIOS problem. The BIOS
> does correctly auto-detect the drive name/model but doesn't indicate a
> size for either the new or the old drive that might verify capacity
> capabilities.
>  
> I can't find any information on a possible hard drive size limit for my
> machine's BIOS, except some generic info that indicates that machines of
> my vintage "didn't have LBA support and couldn't address more than
> 137GB."
>  
> I have checked with Toshiba's website and there is a newer version of
> BIOS than what I have, but it only supports a processor change. It does
> not mention any change in drive sizes supported.
>  
> Are there other things I should check? Should I drop back to a 120GB
> drive and see what happens? I am otherwise happy with this machine still
> and don't need to upgrade without reason.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> -- charles
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