T400s - Difficulty migrating to SSD
I just added a 256GB Samsung 830 in place of the optical drive, intialized it, and ran Ghost 15 to do a "Drive Copy", but the SERVICEV001 EISA partition wasn't visible by Ghost. The copy ran OK and I moved the SSD to the top of the boot order, but obviously I can't boot from the SSD, which now has only one 126GB NTFS partition. (I did set it active and copied the MBR).
Is there another utility that can manage a drive clone (both partitions) and additionally let me allocate all the remaining free space to the Windows partition? Can the T400s even boot from the drive bay? This is all with XP SP3 and R&R 4.21.
Hopefully there's someone who has done this successfully. Thanks!!
Acronis True image is what I used to clone mine, I don't think the trial version will let you clone though.
Even with the Acronis, I had to boot into recovery mode to get to a command prompt and use diskpart to re assign the drive letters and active partition, etc.
I tried the Ghost as well but it seemed to only want to use one partition - I couldn't figure it out and I have been using ghost since it was on a 3.5 inch floppy and still use version 10 all the time and clone multiple partitions (same to same, small to large, large to smaller, etc) all with no issues.
If you can get your hands on the Ghost 10 DVD and a computer with 2 free sata ports - that's what I would use, you plug up the old and new drive and boot from the Ghost DVD - then tell it recover disk using a legacy ghost image then it will give you the option to image disk to disk and also give you partition options. Sometimes even after ghost 10 I have to diskpart it because the partitions get the wrong drive letter assigned but no big deal....There is a lot of info on the internet on fixing it.
After much frustration with the ghost 15 when I received my Samsung, I tried some other free utilities but nothing really worked so I ended up with the Acronis True Image and it did "most" of the work then I patched it after and was done...
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