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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Jim,
Didnt you have to format and put a minimal OS on the USB drive before starting? I have tried putting drives in a USB enclosure to do work on them and until they were formatted they would not show up on the Explorer window.
For partition work I use partition magic. Got it free so use it, otherwise would try Commander, have heard good things about it.
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Joe -
Didn't do anything to the new drive except take it out of the anti-static bag and put it in the USB enclosure. Possibly the enclosure was your difference; mine is an inexpensive ($25) from Mascot, but couldn't have been simpler or easier. After Acronis was done, I took the drive out of the USB enclosure and put it in the ThinkPad. Done.
I have both Partition Magic and Partition Commander. PMagic has to be installed, PCommander does not - big plus for PCommander. Had used PMagic for a while and it went through a couple of revisions before I needed its services again. So - had to install each rev in turn because each upgrade had to see the previous revision installed before it would install. Royal pita - it's now permanently sidelined. I like utilities that run from the CD/DVD; much more helpful for problem recoveries. Acronis is installed software, but it's used as my normal backup software as well, so installation makes sense. EasyMigrate, as red-beard says, will run from a CD.