On 12/10/11 16:46, Martin N wrote:
Lo,
While googling around for information on the t60 hard drive i have come
across this "
2nd Hard Disk Drive Adapter for Ultrabay Slim
"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-Ultrabay-Exchange-UltraBase-ThinkPad/dp/B001JIUGOW/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1
Using this extra bay containing a new HD and the original hard drive
in its normal slot there should be no
problem doing a straight image +MBR re-image via Macrium reflect or
other imaging tool?
I was wondering if the port would expect a dvd rw and not a HDD
outside windows and thus
not be seen by the imaging software?
In other words the extra bay is standard enough to be seen by bios as
another HDD?
Martin N
Right--the 2nd disk is seen as just another disk. I have only seen a
problem talking to
it via some incredibly strange "clever" software that tried talking
directly to the disk
controller, bypassing Windows completely. It was subsequently changed.
So yes you can run imaging software. But let me offer a thought, one
that almost
no one agrees with me on. If you are running Windows, you don't want to
move
things wholesale--you want to completely build up from a disk format.
Why? Because
then you aren't moving damaged/weird registry entries, the flotsam of
useless tmp
files, and hidden viri that your AV software hasn't yet caught.
Reinstalling from
scratch gives you as much of a pristine Windows as possible. That's why
I like the
recovery partition system so well--it gets you back to a known state of
things. You
are trusting Lenovo to create a clean system, true, but I've not seen
them screw
that up.
--STeve Andre'
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