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| Thread ID: 77744 | 2007-03-20 23:04:00 | New Laptop HDD - what process | johcar (6283) | Press F1 |
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| 534658 | 2007-03-20 23:04:00 | My Toshiba M33 Matsu****a HDD is starting to display nasty errors ("The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block . ") - this has occurred about three times in the last 5 days, giving me a BSOD mentioning an "Unmountable Boot Device" and a "Kernal . . . something" . The Help & Support article (accessed via a link in the Event Viewer) recommends "If this event is logged regularly, replace the hard disk drive . " So I have ordered a new Seagate Momentus 120GB HDD from my friendly Ascent shop . Should arrive tomorrow . What is the process for installing it? Obviously, back up all data . Pull out the old HDD and install the new one . Then what - when I fire up the laptop, won't the new HDD want to be formatted and/or initialised? Does the laptop (BIOS?) know enough to do this automatically? And when I stick the Restore Disk in after this has completed, this should install XP and all the Tosh drivers, yes? Then all I should need to do is reinstall all my applications . . . Thanks in advance for advice on this . . . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 534659 | 2007-03-21 01:23:00 | I'd Ghost it. You'd need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. Remove HDD from laptop, connect to another PC using adapter. Make an image. Repeat process with new HDD, restoring the image. Saves messing about backing up and having to reinstall all your extra bits later. But I suppose you could use the Recovery - it is on CD? It should do it all happily not caring that the new HDD is bigger. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 534660 | 2007-03-21 02:00:00 | Cheers pctek - I have found a colleague with Ghost and the necesary tek knowledge to assist . . . Fingers crossed - just doing a Chkdsk to ensure the damn thing lasts long enough for the new HDD to arrive . . . . :thumbs: |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 534661 | 2007-03-21 04:20:00 | Cheers pctek - I have found a colleague with Ghost and the necesary tek knowledge to assist . . . Fingers crossed - just doing a Chkdsk to ensure the damn thing lasts long enough for the new HDD to arrive . . . . :thumbs: Dont . Leave it alone . It will just get worse . And when you Ghost go into options and choose both force clone and ignore CRC . That way it won't stop when it encounters the bad blocks . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 534662 | 2007-03-22 01:55:00 | Installed new 120GB HDD in my HDD enclosure, initialised and formatted it. Booting from Ghost disk, selected to install USB2 driver. The new HDD in the enclosure (connected to the laptop via USB2) cannot be seen by Ghost. Tried USB1.1 driver install also - same result except I can't use my mouse. Any ideas? | johcar (6283) | ||
| 534663 | 2007-03-22 02:58:00 | Installed new 120GB HDD in my HDD enclosure, initialised and formatted it. Booting from Ghost disk, selected to install USB2 driver. The new HDD in the enclosure (connected to the laptop via USB2) cannot be seen by Ghost. Tried USB1.1 driver install also - same result except I can't use my mouse. Any ideas? Format the drive first then put back in enclosure. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 534664 | 2007-03-22 04:22:00 | That's what I did - took my usual external HDD out and replaced it with the new one. Plugged it in and fired up Disk Management, initialised and then formatted it (gave it a Drive Letter "F"). Then restarted and tried to boot off the Ghost disk with the results described above... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 534665 | 2007-03-22 06:22:00 | That's what I did - Plugged it in and fired up Disk Management, initialised and then formatted it (gave it a Drive Letter "F"). Then restarted and tried to boot off the Ghost disk with the results described above... Um. When I boot, at the part where it displays RAM, HDDs, optical drives etc, when I have my external plugged into USB it shows up as a USB drive. You said Booting from Ghost disk, selected to install USB2 driver. What? You just boot off your boot disk, load Ghost, tell it to restore your previously created image to the new drive, Ghost should just see it, you don't need to install any drivers. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 534666 | 2007-03-22 08:59:00 | Acronis TrueImage is far better than Ghost (IMHO). You can do it all in windows, don't have to worry about DOS USB drivers. Do you know anyone that has that? It's not horribly expensive, and it's really good for backups. | trig42 (11325) | ||
| 534667 | 2007-03-22 10:18:00 | Um. When I boot, at the part where it displays RAM, HDDs, optical drives etc, when I have my external plugged into USB it shows up as a USB drive. You said Booting from Ghost disk, selected to install USB2 driver. What? You just boot off your boot disk, load Ghost, tell it to restore your previously created image to the new drive, Ghost should just see it, you don't need to install any drivers.Booting from the CD - to create the Ghost Image... Or can I create the image from within XP? |
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