Yes, XP Professional is more difficult. You might want to consider some of the brands of cloning software for better results... at a cost... Acronis, Barracude, Symantec Ghost, Kace K2000, EaseUS, Clonezilla, Gizmo, TheFreeCountry
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Martin N <[email protected]> wrote: > Lo, > > As the list may remember i am trying to clone my failing t60 Thinkpad HDD to > a new HDD. > I did a full disk clone image of the hard drive in one go from the failing > HDD to an image on > my Desktop using Macrium reflect > > I then proceeded to reimage using my e-SATA external dock onto the on to the > new HDD. > Then the first problem arose bizarrely Macrium reflect doesn't allow a full > in one go disk > image restore! :( > > I had to restore each of the 4 partitions one by one. > > On insertion into my t60 windows xp boots past the "knight riders" progress > bar and onto > the xp splash screen were it sticks with no HDD activity but the trackpoint > works. > Safe mode doesn't work either. > > However my w2k OS install (2nd partition) boots up fine with only the odd > symptom that > the screen resolution is set to 640 480 on first boot since changed to 1280 > 1024. > > Is xp more heavily protected by Microsoft than w2k and this is the reason i > am not > allowed to image to another drive? > Any other reason why it didn't work? > > thanks for your time > > Martin N > > Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of > MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad -- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. . .. ... .... ...... ...... ........ .......... Steven Wright _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
