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Posted by Joe Davis on June 29, 2005, 2:43 pm
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> grativo@aol.com wrote:
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>> How in the hell do you upgrade a laptop hard drive? I'm trying to
>> upgrade the HD in my Dell 600M and Windows XP. I can't get it to
>> work...here's what I've done so far...
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>> The old hd had a 30 meg partition for util and recover crap, other than
>> the primary partition so I partitioned the new hard drive into two and
>> used Norton Ghost to clone each partition to a new hard drive.
>>
>> When I boot off the new hard drive, I get the "hal.dll corrupt or
>> missing error". How in the hell do you get around this? I tried
>> fixboot from System Recovery Console and it doesn't do anything.
>>
>> I've tried a fresh install on the new hard drive but then it really
>> screws up my programs.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated before I tackle this again this weekend.
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> First, try making an image copy of your entire disk and restoring it to
> the
> new one, not partition by partition as (a) I doubt that Ghost knows how to
> deal with the proprietary Dell maintenance partition other than by a
> sector-by-sector copy and (b) you need to copy the boot loader that
> recognizes and ignores the maintenance partition.
>
> Next, if that doesn't work, use the XP user migration tool to back up your
> user settings, then do your clean install, install your drivers, install
> your applications, then restore your user settings and you should be back
> to a state fairly close to the one before you changed drives.
>>
>> Grativo
>
> --
> --John
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> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
I have the same machine and ran into the same problem. Spent 2 weeks with
Ghost and with Drive Image and couldn't get either to work right. I finally
resorted to E-Z Gig. E-Z Gig is a USB case for a 2.5" drive. You put your
new drive in the case and run their software CD and it clones your existing
disk to the new one. Then you swap drives and you're ready to go. This is
the ONLY way I've ever been able to avoid re-installing programs on my Dell
600m. I've never been able to get past the "hal.dll" corrupt or some
similar error by using Ghost or Drive Image.
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