Lenovo T43 (with XP) Wont Power On

[Default] On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:52:06 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general wrote:

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:44:47 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

IIRC, the T43 hdd is 2.5" IDE. Does your desktop have any IDE connectors?
If so, then you will need a mini IDE to regular IDE connector, or two.
Ebay: 2.5" Laptop to 3.5" Desktop IDE Hard Drive Adapter HD Computer YP
*** $1.31, Buy It Now, Free shipping, 158 sold, From China

I am not familiar with clone software except WD. I have the WD proprietary
cloner since all my good hdd's are wd black.
The 8 others are small and only used for ms dos, w98, xp, Linux, etc.
Don't care about cloning them.

I have several desktop machines. They are all older and all are IDE. I
do have one somewhat newer one, which has SATA drives. I'm not sure if
that one also has IDE connectors, but I dont need to use that one
anyhow. I can probably use any of my other XP machines to make the
clone.

Although Partition Magic works fine in Win98, I am puzzled whether I

Be careful about using Easus Partition Master with fat32. IIRC there
was no warning, and I guess I tried to make a partition smaller, and
the partition became unbootable. I posted about this all over usenet
5 or 10 years ago, under the name mm I don't have time now but if
you want details searching on Easeus FAT32 smaller would
probalby find it. Okay, how much time coudl that take?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/Easeus$20FAT32$20smaller$20/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage/Y2krQYZHZ3U/ZzAy76JblYcJ

This post is overkill:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/Easeus$20FAT32$20smaller$20/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/4c5aj9LC0DA/VO42qc-lnkEJ

But it's worked fine with NTFS. Of course maybe I haven't made
anythng smaller.


could make the clones using Win98, since the drives to be cloned are
NTFS formatted, and 98 dont support NTFS.... ??? (Just a thought,
because I have other XP machines that I can use, so I dont need to use
my Win98 computer).

Thanks for the connector info. At least I now know what to look for on
Ebay.

I am wondering if those mini IDE connectors also have the POWER
connectors included? Those mini 4pin Power connectors are also unique to
the laptop drives.
(I cant really access ebay now, being on dialup)!

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I have never been able to figure out Macrium, which seems very
complicated and bloated, but I have Partition Magic, which works fine
for cloning, Windows 95 thru XP. (I dont know if it works on Vista thru
Windows 10, since I have no intention to use those operating systems). I
have cloned several desktop drives for Win98, Win2000, and XP, using
Partition Magic.

I find Macrium (I have version 5) pretty intuitive! But there may be
differences in how we are using them:
(a) I have only ever used it using the boot-from-CD option. (It fits on
a mini-CD, which I keep with my external USB disc dock.)
(b) I use it to image rather than clone. I image the c: drive and the
hidden recovery partition, to an image file, then restore from that
image to the new drive (thus putting both the hidden partition and the
C: drive onto the new drive). I then use a partition manager (I use
either the OS's built-in one, or the EaseUS one) to play about with the
size of C: and D:.

After I find some way to plug them in to a desktop comp, I suppose I'd
have to boot up using drive C:, then plug one laptop drive into the
second IDE plug, and unplug the CD/DVD drive for my 3rd plug... Right?

If you boot (the desktop PC) from a CD (Macrium has the ability to make
such a CD - that's what I always use, see above - as does, I think,
Acronis and some if not all of the others), and have _some_ way of
connecting your source drive to the computer, then you should be able to
make the image file on the computer's HD, if there's room (Macrium and I
think the others can make an image file whose size is only the _used_
part of the source drive, in fact less than that as it offers
compression). You'd then switch the drive for the new one, boot from the
CD again, and this time select the option to "restore" from the image
file to the drive.

(The image file is just an ordinary file [other than that it's big!];
you can move it around like any other file.


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