installing new hard drive on m200

[rabilancia]

hello I have bought an m200 I now want to upgrade the hard drive to 7200 rpm

so I bought another one with an external dvd playerof course it doesn't work

I copied the cd files into the hard drive directly by my external 2.5 enclosure but still doesn't boot

for info I don't have any SD card less than 1GB

I tried your network boot solution but still does not work
I didn't know what to put for boot file in tftp I did try install.bat but nothing

thank you for the answers

[John Land]

You can't just copy files of the old internal drive to the new (external for now) drive -- you need a cloning program, such as Acronis True Image (I don't know if any free-ware programs exist for doing this). Once you clone Old-->New (via USB), remove the old drive and install the new drive into the internal bay.

[rabilancia]

thank you for the answer
at first I didn't wanted to clone the hard drive but instead do another clean install.
I did try to clone the hard drive with norton ghost.
Ghost copied the files checked them and then gave me a sucess message,
when I install the new hard drive into the laptop I turn on the computer, it boots until it reach the login screen I enter my password and then the "welcome sound" plays and it follows by the "logoff sound" !! then the screen comes back to login. Everytime I enter my password and press ok , it's the same thing
of course I've tried again, I formated the hard drive, cloned it again and the same problem reappeared ...

anyway does anybody know if I can lunch the recovery Cd from the SD Boot card ? I think I'm going to buy an SD tomorrow

[John Land]

Norton Ghost is brain dead when it comes to cloning. When you hook up the new drive externally and start Windows, the new drive is generally D: (anything but C:). Norton Ghost clones to D: BUT DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO RESET D: TO C:. Thus, when you install the new drive internally, it begins to boot, but since the signature recorded by Windows for that drive is that it's the D: drive, and Windows expects most of its files to be on the C: drive, you can't finish booting. I experienced the exact same thing myself.

The solution for me was Acronis TrueImage. It is smart enough to change the D: identifier to C: (you'll see a brief command line message from TrueImage the first time you boot the new, cloned drive, which is when the switch occurs -- only happens once).

[bmhome1]

Acronis True Image is one of the best applications I've ever used, both for its simplicity (no manual reading) and utter reliability. Its worth every cent.

[rabilancia]

YESS !! I did it my laptop is so much faster now !!
2gb DDR
100GB 7200rpm
1.8ghz dothan

thank you all so much

Acronis owns !!!

the hard drive is very noisy tough !

now I just hope the laptop itself's gonna last a while