I usually do it using an usb drive for a backup. With old hdd in main bay and connected usb drive boot from cd/usb stick with acronis media. Dont know the seagate version but acronis software usually lets you create rescue cd/usb stick. Dont clone the disk, instead backup the full disk to the usb drive. When done, power off, remove old hdd and install new hdd in main bay Boot from cd/usb stick with acronis media and restore the backup from usb drive.
I never had any problems using that method and on top if you split the backup accordingly you can burn it on a dvd. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Im Auftrag von Michael Geary > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. April 2012 06:37 > An: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Thinkpad] cloning bootable disk > > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
