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M$1 June 11, 2009 10:58 PM

Can someone help me with my toshiba satellite x205-s7483 hard drive upgrade?

upgraded the hard drive on a toshiba satellite x205-s7483 to a 500 gig from 120 and used a Ubuntu live cd on a desktop to copy the partitions over with gpart. i set the boot flag on it and when it boots i get nothing. the bios shows it but doesn't show it as a bootable drive. the bios tho shows a hard drive and the desktop sees the hard drive and files on it but the laptop won't let me use it to boot from. any ideas
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cacarr cacarr
 
June 12, 2009 09:56 AM
Are you looking at the contents of the drive via an Ubuntu Live session? What operating system is installed on the drive you are trying to boot from? Did you make an image of your old drive?

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June 12, 2009 08:11 PM
"Are you looking at the contents of the drive via an Ubuntu Live session" yes
"What operating system is installed on the drive you are trying to boot from" vista 32 bit
"Did you make an image of your old drive" no i did not change any thing on the old drive still have it and it still boots but its full only 1.2 gigs free space.

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cacarr cacarr
 
June 12, 2009 08:47 PM
OK, I might be a little out of my element as I was not aware that you could clone a partition with a Windows installation using gparted...so there may be some other issues.

First, do you have a Vista installation disc? If so, boot from the installation disc (if not, you may have to create a recovery disc from a partition) Click "repair your computer." Select the OS to be repaired (if it shows it). Then click "next." Select "command prompt" in "system recovery options." Type: bootrec.exe

Reboot.

Try that. Let me know the results. Hopefully someone will chime in here with better info...

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cacarr cacarr
 
June 12, 2009 08:52 PM
If you've been using that Vista installation for a long time, you might be better off just backing up your files, doing a fresh install of Vista on the new drive, then adding your data back into your new installation. You would have to reinstall all your software, but you would have a fresh, faster system, which is nice...

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June 13, 2009 12:16 AM
witch of the 4 options should i do for bootrec.exe

unfortunately this is a friends laptop so reinstalling isnt a option really. normally don't have a problem doing this but this one is fighting all the way. i got it to the point now where it boots from the cd it looks like but just has the flashing _ in the top left.

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cacarr cacarr
 
June 13, 2009 02:04 AM
What options are you referring to?

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cacarr cacarr
 
June 13, 2009 11:27 PM
Were there seperate OS and data partitions?

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nlinked nlinked
 
June 13, 2009 11:12 PM
If you're trying to make an Ubuntu hard drive bootable, you'll need to configure GRUB as the boot loader. Steps can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

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cacarr cacarr
 
June 13, 2009 11:26 PM
That's not what he's trying to do.

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