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Cloning IBM notebook with Predesktop area

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Molloch

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Hey, can anyone give me some tips on successfully duplicating an IBM notebook drive including the Predesktop area?

I've got a T40 with a 30GB drive and have recently picked up a Toshiba 60GB 5400RPM drive and a USB2 enclosure for it. I've tried cloning (Ghost 2004) the old drive to the new one with different BIOS settings for the visibility of the Predesktop area and have yet to do something that will actually boot when I stick the new drive in the machine. One potential problem I'm having is when Ghost clones the old partitions to the new drive, it automatically grows them to take a consistent percentage of the new drive as on the old.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also, I do have the IBM recovery CDs. Has anyone ever run these and if so do they create a fresh Predesktop area on a clean drive?

Thanks.
 
I don't know about the Ghost thing sorry
But as for the pre-desktop area, If you mean once you make it unavailable and reclaimed by the OS so you can use the extra space.
And then decide to put it back Yes the recovery cd's will do that or on a new Hard drive as long as in the BIOS it's
the default setting. or if you have turned it off then You just put it back to the default settings in the BIOS and then
Pop the cd's in the machine reboot from them and it will do the rest it will restore the predesktop and then the factory image.
Then when you get ready for to install the factory image it will do it from the HPA of the hard drive.
 
So what exactly is the default setting for the pre-desktop area in the bios? Secured (invisible to OS, not changeable) or Enabled (invisible to OS, changeable)? Do I need to have any particular partition info on there, or should I have no partitions and it will fill them in?
 
I think that if you can download the utilities from IBM it can create the image automatically including the hidden partition.
 
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