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Upgrading hard drive in IBM Thinkpad T42

Asked by DataDudes in Disk Partition Tools, PC Laptops, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: hard, drive, t42, ibm, thinkpad

I have an IBM Thinkpad T42 and I'm trying to upgrade the 40GB hard drive with a 120GB drive. The data must be an exact copy, with windows on one partition, so I've tried to image the original drive using Ghost 10 and Self-Image.

If I use Ghost with the options "Copy MBR" and "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" once I put the newly imaged drive into the laptop, it sits at a black screen with a blinking cursor.

If I use Self-Image to make an exact copy, the drive boots up just fine, but the partition on the new hard drive is only 33GB for windows and 4GB for the protected IBM recovery area. That leaves the rest of the drive as unallocated space. I would like this to be one big partition so I've tried using a number of partition programs to resize the partition to take up the rest of the unallocated space, but whenever I do this I'm back to the black screen with blinking cursor. I've tried booting up into recovery console and using fixboot and fixmbr with no luck.

Is there any way to image an IBM hard drive onto a new, larger, hard drive and allowing it to use all unallocated space without reinstalling Windows?

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Upgrading hard drive in IBM Thinkpad T42

Asked by DataDudes in Disk Partition Tools, PC Laptops, Computer Hard Drives

Tags: hard, drive, t42, ibm, thinkpad

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