Yes, you want to do the cloning with the new disk in an internal drive bay. That's almost sure to be the problem here.
If you have the second HDD adapter, you could just put the new drive in the adapter and boot from the old drive in the main bay, then clone it from there. Then be sure to power down and swap the drives (removing the old one completely) before you boot up again. Depending on your windows version, it can really mess things up if you start up with two bootable drives like that. -Mike On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I'm sure this has been discussed, but now that I need the info i can't > find it. > > Upgrading the disk in an R60 from 60GB to 250GB. Used Seagate's DiskWizard > (Acronis software) to clone, with original disk in standard place and the > new disk in a usb enclosure. Seemed to work fine; disk contents look great > when new disk is attached via usb, but: when I swap out the old disk for > the new one it won't boot. > > Somebody forgot to tell it it's bootable? Is there an easy way to do this? > > Or is this the situation that requires the new disk to be inside the > machine when it's being written to, with original disk elsewhere? > (I can get the machine to boot off the original disk when it's in a HDD > tray, so by changing boot order I could boot from original in tray, then > clone to the new disk inside the machine, if that's what's needed.) > > Or am I more confused than I think? > > Advice, pointers, etc. most welcome. > > TIA > > _______________________________________________ > 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
