Tamta’s blog

Well well so long I haven’t been back to blogging (and I think I have good reasons for it) but this topic deserves a post anyway

My Thinkpad T43 is running clumsy after I tried some datawarehousing and BI stuffs on it. It’s good time for a HDD upgrade considering the cost for a new HDD (which is around a business dinner) and the urge to make a fresh reinstall of Windoze.

My first concern is to copy the pre-desktop partition of the OEM HDD to the new HDD and make it work with the blue ‘Access IBM’ button. I did some search on Google and came across with this article which seems to be interesting: http://tech.slupik.com/

Thinking it’s enough, I bought a Samsung 120GB disk from a retail store in Low Yat Plaza and rushed to the hotel room to begin my disk change process.

It didn’t work, simply because the post was intended for a T42 and mine is a T43 which has different config. Yeah that’s me, silly TT

In a different place I’ve read that Acronis True Image is able to copy that thingy to the new HDD, and I saw myself downloading it using the hotel connection overnight. I woke up early in the morning and had a try on Acronis, whose GUI looks awesome. That was enough because I had to work that day.

Hurried back from work I ran a few clicks (which later turns out to be too reckless) and find myself half way cloning the OEM disk to the new one. Life is easy and good. And here came dinner, my peers waiting for me downstairs.

Getting back from dinner I was welcomed by a blank screen which says there is no OS found on my old HDD. Sad but true. Even the blue ‘Access IBM’ button didn’t work. The only possibility was that I have chosen to delete all information from the old HDD. Yep that is me.

No worries, I have the brave new HDD with stuffs inside and a screwdriver. It’s not the end of the world. I replaced the new HDD into T43 and switched it on.

“Error 2010….”

Here it is .. end of the world… I ended up with borrowing a spare laptop from the local people (thanks God it’s a good T60) and successfully did my presentation for that day. After that I rushed to Google and found that that error is a very famous one on T43. And my HDD works if I simply press ESC instead of panicking. Hey dude it’s me - don’t laugh, I say don’t laugh!

It’s still a near-happy end, when I restore the new HDD containing all stuffs into the old one, then get a fresh OS installation from the Recovery DVDs. Am now half-way rebuilding the basic softwares and trying to find out how to get rid of that 2010 error and writing this blog!