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

Charles

Do you have the recovery cd that came with your laptop?
YES skip to B
A: Get online and download the install CD from Toshiba
burn a data cd that is bootable with that data on it.

TEST the CD being bootable by having it in your laptop when you turn it on 

(you might have to configure your BIOS to boot from the CD FIRST. Once you 

have that working continue to B

B: Once you have backed up your DATA and any applications that you don't 

have the origional CD's to the drive that  is on USB port . REMEMBER to 

EXPORT your contacts if you use OUTLOOK OR OUTLOOK EXPRESS. And if you store 

your EMAIL on your computer

you have to back that up also.  Most of your data will be in MY Documents.

Install your new 250GB drive XP can handle the 250GB drive but you BIOS 

might not.

The BIOS might force you to PARTION the drive (I don't expect that to be the 

case though.

You will be booting off the recovery cd and it contains the drivers for all 

of the componets

that make up your laptop.Your BIOS is like a 'step ladder'  Your OS is an 

'escalator' WINXP.

Make sure you the LICENSE for XP (it should be on your laptop ON THE BACK 

copy it so you don't have to turn it over while it is on.

Once XP is installed it BOOT (remove the cd from the drive) Reinstall your 

apps and restore your data.

I probably forgot something, if so let me know.

Stephen
81 Ferrari GTSi

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "David Thursby" <david [at] thethursbys.net>

To: "Stephen" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Laptop Hard Drive Help (NFC)

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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Re: Laptop Hard Drive Help (NFC)	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Stephen Sherman (shermanwildblue.net)
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:57:19 -0700 (PDT)