I cloned the Windows and restore partitions from my original T43p Fujitsu MHV2080AH 80GB drive to a Western Digital WD3200BEVE 320GB 5400 RPM 2.5 ATA-6 drive (from Newegg.com) via USB, then swapped the drives and restored the original Thinkpad Windows XP on the new drive from the cloned restore partition. Paragon Partition Manager and Paragon Drive Copy tested successfully but I used EASEUS Partition Master; Acronis clone failed to boot; PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8 would only hang at the initiation of cloning. The downside is that this drive does not accept the park head command from the Thinkpad accelerometer, but the bootup warning message can be bypassed in the BIOS. No other problems in the past 4 months.
max On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > After serving me well for years my ThinkPad T43's fixed drive > infrequently start making lots of noise. The drive is ~70GB and I would > like to replace it with an equal or larger one. > > with Regards and TIA > Zoltan > > -- > Zoltan Bokeny > bokeny at earthlink dot net > Fayetteville, North Carolina > > I will not shop at "Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of China"! > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
