[ltp] Step up T60

[Helen Borrie]

At 09:43 PM 12/03/2009, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> The dual-boot plan is to get rid of the unwanted stuff on the 80GB drive, partition the 320 GB drive and image-copy the C partition into the boot partition of the bigger drive;  then do likewise with the Linux (Mandriva 2008:0) partition from the 160 GB Samsung PATA HDD that's currently on the no-name;  and fix up the MBR.
>
>You can't just image-copy WinXP to another drive. The reason is that it
>stores a harddisk ID hash with the drive letter associations in it's
>registry. Namely, it won't boot anymore on the new drive, because it's
>got the wrong hdd id stored for C. But you can do something about that.
>There's an article on thinkwiki about copying a windows installation
>that explains how to manually copy over those drive ids.

Excellent, thanks!


>> Whichever way I go, I'm led to the next question:  adding more drives.  I understand that the optical drive caddy on this machine can be removed and replaced with a HDD caddy.  As the T60 is still on its way, I don't know whether the Ultrabay presents a "bus-neutral" interface to the caddies and the Lenovo site is *singularly* unhelpful. I see that both SATA and IDE caddies are available...I'm assuming (until better informed) that I'll need a PATA caddy if I want the option to recycle the existing PATA drive from the no-name box.   Does anyone know for sure whether the Ultrabay interface is bus-neutral? 
>
>Don't quite understand what you mean by that. To insert a PATA drive
>you'll need the PATA adapter.

Sure, the PATA adapter (caddy) for the drive.  But my question concerns the interface (adapter) between the caddy and the ultrabay.

Thanks,
Helen