Re: Recovery disk install fails, why? "It sounds like you created a partition on the drive in an external enclosure, is that right?" That's exactly what I did, partitions were created with the drive in a usb box using a disk imaging utility. I think you hit the solution. <> Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:06:31 -0800 From: Michael Geary <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Recovery disk install fails, why? To: Laurence <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cabjouvruxgpygptcb0iyh4j_fgpxfagzfuqwp9v2ygbocr7...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
It sounds like you created a partition on the drive in an external enclosure, is that right? Don't do that. That is likely the cause of the different geometry. Remove all partitions from the drive and let the recovery disk run on a completely empty, unpartitioned drive mounted in the internal bay. -Mike On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Laurence <[email protected]>wrote: > T40. > I attempted to run the orginal ibm recovery disk set on a replacement > drive, a Seagate 160GB. When the recovery CD #1 was run, it generated an > error > " 152624MB 20673c 240h63s appears to have partitions created usin a > ifferent drive geometry (25563s). This serious problem can lead to data > loss. You should backup all data, delete partitions...." > After acknowleging the message, the recovery program continued rather than > halted - (I thought it creates new partitions). It also generated a number > of errors, asked me repeatedly if some element was a file or directory. I > allowed it to finish. > In the end it would not boot. Examining the drive in an external > enclosure, it appeared to have my original data and just under 3GB in a > partiton named ibm. When I had earlier partitioned the disk, I left aside > 3GB at the start of the disk to make room for a recovery partition to be > loaded later. Obviously this didn't work. > > The drive had previously been used as an external backup, it was working > fine in that regard. > > So how should I proceed? I do have a working image on the machine so it's > not an emergency. I'm rebuilding because the old image has developed some > annoyances, as well it might after 7 years. Must I format the replacement > disk in a special way, or must I use a specific size or disk geometry? > > tx > _______________________________________________ > 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
