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Have a IBM R40 laptop with P4 mobile and 20GB disk.
The disk is way to small and i want to put a new disk in it by ghosting the old to the new one.

It is not my laptop and there is way too much proggies on it that i want to reinstall.
The person owning it have no clue whatsoever and has not even taken care of the original IBM CD's.

So... i thought ghosting would be painless but its not.
Lappy won't boot after ghosting.

IBM support says they have a hidden partition on the original disk wich ghost wont take... and therefore it wont boot cuz my new disk offcourse dont have this partition.

There is a setting in BIOS that alows me to turn off a setting that i "think" might fix this... but its not reversable... so im afraid to do it.

I first tried to ghost old-drive -> image and then image -> new-drive. No go.
Then i tried disk to disk with two 2.5" -> 3.5" adaptors. No go.

Using a second desktop for ghosting.

Tried setting the "Image All (or was it image boot?)" in ghost and i almost had it.... machine will boot, but WinXP just hangs at welcome screen.

Any ideas of how to fix this? Just want all the shaite on old disk over to new disk. Stupid IBM.


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I fixed it!! :+

Inquiring minds want to know.

Used Ghost option "Image Disk" (Sector by sector)

yeah its the ibm service partition, a somewhat tricky thing. my t22 has one but i ended up getting the ultrabay 2nd hdd adapter to ghost it cuz the desktop wouldnt read it right. the service partition has their windows installer in it you hit f 11 on power on boot to activate it.

Funny thing though... ibm's stuff is ghone. But it still works... hat

the service partition doesnt boot the machine to windows. i think it boots to some form of linux when you press f11 then it copies all the stuff from the service partition to the windows partition. then it reboots with a new install of windows. so you probly just copied the bootable partition.