Upgrading to a larger harddrive

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Kevin S · #1 Post by **Kevin S** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:31 pm

I have recently bought a backup up hard drive to use in the case of a hard drive failure. I have Ghosted the image but it won't boot.

laz · #2 Post by **laz** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:07 pm

Check the boot order in your bios. On the newer ones I think it's F12.

bill bolton · #3 Post by **bill bolton** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:01 pm

Kevin S wrote:I have Ghosted the image but it won't boot.

Kiora Kevin! Tell us more please.

How did you attach the second drive to your Thinkpad while Ghosting to it?

When it wouldn't boot, did you have the drive in the ThinkPad drive bay or where it was located while Ghosting?

Cheers,

Bill

#4 Post by **Kyocera** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:49 pm

CD's maybe? The hard way.

smugiri · #5 Post by **smugiri** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:43 pm

bill bolton wrote:
Kevin S wrote:I have Ghosted the image but it won't boot.
Kiora Kevin! Tell us more please.

How did you attach the second drive to your Thinkpad while Ghosting to it?

When it wouldn't boot, did you have the drive in the ThinkPad drive bay or where it was located while Ghosting?

Cheers,

Bill

More important, did you do your post Ghost/pre boot Haka?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Please forgive me.

michaeladtx · #6 Post by **michaeladtx** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:40 am

If you're using an older version of Norton Ghost, try this option on the command prompt "GHOST -IB".

#7 Post by **BillMorrow** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:01 pm

more information is required to properly answer this fellow..

from what i can see, now, the image was not applied correctly..
which is why i use acronis true image..

Kevin S · #8 Post by **Kevin S** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:49 am

Thanks for all the comments - went quiet while I bit the bullet and bought True Image 9. I achieved an image (after discovering the hard drive I bought was not suported by i-rocks external caddy and the hard drive was faulty) and it worked perfectly. The other reason for upgrading was Rapid Restore Backup was hogging 35 gigs of a 50 gig hard drive and I could not get rid of the folder. So far, I have been able to see what is in the folder on the drive in the caddy and I nuked that folder, removed the hard drive and put it back in the R51 - magic - 35 gigs of space again. I've disabled RRB for the moment and I am relying on a backup hard disc as my recovery solution and using Secondcopy to monitor the file changes in case of a disaster. I suddenly feel safe.
It seems that Rapid Restore Backup, even after using the method to delete backups, still hogs the folder it created even though it is empty. What a silly default and why not warn the careful user of the problem. tech support at IBM has no idea. So many hours of angst and so many dollar for a solution. I am over it but it sucks.