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

[Martin Stark (MStark]

Charles,

Make sure your bios supports a 250MB drive. You can buy a copy of Ghost 
14 for around $40. (from eBay) with the rebate offer removed.

From the Ghost 14 manual:

Copying a drive
This chapter includes the following topics:
? About copying a drive
? Preparing to copy drives
? Copying one hard drive to another hard drive
About copying a drive
You can use the Copy Drive feature to copy your operating system, 
applications,
and data from one hard drive to another hard drive.
You can even copy a larger hard drive to a smaller hard drive if the 
data on the
drive being copied is at least 1/16th smaller in size than the total 
size of the new
drive.
If the hard drive that you want to copy contains more than one 
partition, you
must copy the partitions one at a time to the new hard drive.
You can use the Copy Drive feature when you upgrade to a larger hard 
drive or
when you add a second hard drive. You should not use the Copy Drive 
feature to
set up a hard drive that will be used in another computer. The drivers 
that are
used to run the hardware on one computer will likely not match the 
drivers on a
second computer.
Note: You must install a fully licensed version of Norton Ghost before 
you can use
the Copy Drive feature. This feature is not available in the evaluation 
version.
Preparing to copy drives
Before you can copy drives, you must have the hardware configured correctly.


Stephen Sherman wrote:

> 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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