Drive Upgrade with Acronis BIOS Error

Using Win XP Pro on an IBM Thinkcentre w/40 gb drive.

I backed up the 40gb to a USB drive using Acronis 10 and made a boot CD.

I replaced the 40 gb with a new 320 gb and booted to acronis on the CD.

Restored the C: partition, rebooted and received a BIOS error about the hard
drive change, saved config and rebooted with no errors.

Everything seems to be working OK but about every 2nd or third time I
reboot, I get the same hard disk error from the bios (1776 I think).
Continue to boot works ok and still no sign of a problem once I get into
execution.

Any suggestions as to why the error pops up erratically? and is there a
utility that would verify the upgrade is successful other than running a few
programs? I ran the Office 'Detect and Repair' that validates all the
office components successfully with no detected problems.

I would just like some confidence that when I button this system all back up
it is as good as new.

TIA, GWB

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:

> Using Win XP Pro on an IBM Thinkcentre w/40 gb drive.
>
> I backed up the 40gb to a USB drive using Acronis 10 and made a boot CD.
>
> I replaced the 40 gb with a new 320 gb and booted to acronis on the CD.
>
> Restored the C: partition, rebooted and received a BIOS error about the hard
> drive change, saved config and rebooted with no errors.
>
> Everything seems to be working OK but about every 2nd or third time I
> reboot, I get the same hard disk error from the bios (1776 I think).
> Continue to boot works ok and still no sign of a problem once I get into
> execution.
>
> Any suggestions as to why the error pops up erratically? and is there a
> utility that would verify the upgrade is successful other than running a few
> programs? I ran the Office 'Detect and Repair' that validates all the
> office components successfully with no detected problems.
>
> I would just like some confidence that when I button this system all back up
> it is as good as new.
>
> TIA, GWB
>
>

The problem here may be a result of an older bios in the computer.
Get a bios update from IBM (or Lenovo). If none available, the most
viable alternative would be to do a clean installation of Windows XP
to a system partition of less than 120 GB and then creating additional
logical drives in the extended partition of the remaining space.

It sounds like your PC's BIOS does not support 48Bit LBA.
Check the vendor for availability of a BIOS update.
You will also need SP1 or SP2 for Windows XP to support drives larger than
137GB.

48Bit LBA Info:
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

Also see MS article:
How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

You can verify if your PC does or does not support large drives (48Bit LBA)
by using a utility named HD Tune: http://www.hdtune.com/
Download, install and then run HD Tune, then click on the 'Info' tab.
Is there a check mark in the 48Bit-address box? If it is not checked then
your PC most likely does not support 48Bit LBA.

Also there is Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Note: Belarc identifies the IDE/ATA control (part number) on your
motherboard,
you then need to Google this part number to find if the controller/chipset
identified by Belarc supports 48Bit LBA.

JS

"George W. Barrowcliff" <george.barrowcliff@barrowcliff.com> wrote in
message news:LoV4k.5135$N87.1121@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...
> Using Win XP Pro on an IBM Thinkcentre w/40 gb drive.
>
> I backed up the 40gb to a USB drive using Acronis 10 and made a boot CD.
>
> I replaced the 40 gb with a new 320 gb and booted to acronis on the CD.
>
> Restored the C: partition, rebooted and received a BIOS error about the
> hard drive change, saved config and rebooted with no errors.
>
> Everything seems to be working OK but about every 2nd or third time I
> reboot, I get the same hard disk error from the bios (1776 I think).
> Continue to boot works ok and still no sign of a problem once I get into
> execution.
>
> Any suggestions as to why the error pops up erratically? and is there a
> utility that would verify the upgrade is successful other than running a
> few programs? I ran the Office 'Detect and Repair' that validates all the
> office components successfully with no detected problems.
>
> I would just like some confidence that when I button this system all back
> up it is as good as new.
>
> TIA, GWB
>