Over the past few years I have had NO luck with cloning the original drive from my Thinkpad T61... I finally had to do something, I already carry a 500 gig in my 2nd drive bay, so tried again and nothing worked, even reverse cloning using the latest Acronis TrueImage Home 2012.
NEW DRIVE - a super nice and fast Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003 (more on that toward end)
This is what finally did it for me:
1. Took the Thinkpad out of the equation (d'oh - should have done that four years ago!) by purchasing an 2/5"/3.5" Alua-tek External SATA Hard Drive duplicator! You simply put the master in one port, the new drive in the second port, TRIPLE check you have them in the right ports (it is pretty clear, but still check, check and then check again) and hit the DUP button. In about an hour my old 320 became a new 750
2. Installed new drive, hit power switch and wow, computer boot up (Windows XP Service Pack 3) went from 5 minutes (I have lots of boot up programs) to less then 2 - did I say wow!
3. That left me with (I am doing this part from memory, numbers could be off slightly)
drive c: 300 meg (an exact copy of the old drive)
drive * (no drive designation) Lenovo service area
UNPARTITIONED 400 meg
So that leaves you with a super fast drive, but unesed 400 meg of space
4. Used Acronis TrueImage Home 2012 to try to redo partitions (had it from first trying to copy the drives, but it would fail and contiuned to do so with this step), filed away in the closet...
5. Did some searching, tried another partition download that failed (sorry did not keep name), but this one worked like a charm and it is free: EASEUS Partition Master v9.1 Home Edition
That allows yuou to **easily** make the 400 meg into drive D
Most people should stop here and be happy. For the more adventuruous that want one big C drive....
Partition Master v9.1 has a way to combine partitions BUT (hate that word), they must be next to each other. See above, I had:
C <lenovo tools> 400 meg new
the lenovo tools is in the way - it took a while to figure that out because the program does not tell you this in plain english...
Yes, I thought about blowing away the Lenovo partition, but did not want to do that as was not sure what it really does or does not do (read it, but still, decided to keep it if possible).
So tried MOVE partition, but there is something odd about the Lenovo area and it would not move.
So CREATED NEW 10 gig space at the END of the 400 meg partition
COPIED Lenovo partition to that 10 gig space area
DELETED Lenovo partition
COMBINED the three partitions into C - and this is where it gets scary.
Over the past few years I have had NO luck with cloning the original drive from my Thinkpad T61... I finally had to do something, I already carry a 500 gig in my 2nd drive bay, so tried again and nothing worked, even reverse cloning using the latest Acronis TrueImage Home 2012.
NEW DRIVE - a super nice and fast Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003 (more on that toward end)
This is what finally did it for me:
1. Took the Thinkpad out of the equation (d'oh - should have done that four years ago!) by purchasing an 2/5"/3.5" Alua-tek External SATA Hard Drive duplicator! You simply put the master in one port, the new drive in the second port, TRIPLE check you have them in the right ports (it is pretty clear, but still check, check and then check again) and hit the DUP button. In about an hour my old 320 became a new 750
2. Installed new drive, hit power switch and wow, computer boot up (Windows XP Service Pack 3) went from 5 minutes (I have lots of boot up programs) to less then 2 - did I say wow!
3. That left me with (I am doing this part from memory, numbers could be off slightly)
drive c: 300 meg (an exact copy of the old drive)
drive * (no drive designation) Lenovo service area
UNPARTITIONED 400 meg
So that leaves you with a super fast drive, but unesed 400 meg of space
4. Used Acronis TrueImage Home 2012 to try to redo partitions (had it from first trying to copy the drives, but it would fail and contiuned to do so with this step), filed away in the closet...
5. Did some searching, tried another partition download that failed (sorry did not keep name), but this one worked like a charm and it is free: EASEUS Partition Master v9.1 Home Edition
That allows yuou to **easily** make the 400 meg into drive D
Most people should stop here and be happy. For the more adventuruous that want one big C drive....
Partition Master v9.1 issues all sorts of warnings, back up your daya, this could fail and you are out of luck, etc. in my case, the original drive was sitting in the Alura-tek duplicator, so I considered all this an experinment (I was happy if I had to go back to C <lenovo> D and then my other E drive and let it do it's thing, which requires a reboot and probably about 40 minutes (memory is fuzzy here on timing) along with a couple of more warnings.
But it all worked perfectly, and now I am sitting on a very vest 750 gig of C drive. Boot time is WAY faster, other performance is faster, but the boot time is where you really notice the new drives performance. For me, this was disk space swap, but I have to say I also could have purchased a cheaper non-Hybird drive and saved $50, so I guess part of me wanted to see if the SSD hype was worth it. It was.
Michael Kneebone
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You should reverse clone; insert the new blank drive into your T61 and clone to it with the original drive in an external caddy.
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