Whether that continues with Windows8, I do not know. In past years, The Lenova Thinkpad has used special head geometry for its internal system disks. If the laptop can handle two disks inside, (or a thinkpad ultrbay) then the location could be modified. Afterwards, do not boot clone with source attached during the first boot. Boot from the TI Recovery CD to perform the procedure.Ĭ. Install target inside laptop and attach the source via another method such as an external disk.ī. My comments relate to the procedure recommended which is recommended by Acronis for laptops. I wonder which of the 2 following is true:Įxplanation A: Acronis clone is actually NOT byte-by-byte (so the target is not truly identical to the source)Įxplanation B: Lenovo does NOT use drive checksum/signature to detect clone drive. What I don't understand is how in the world Lenovo's OneKey Recovery function still be able to detect that I'm running on the clone drive? (except for using this OneKey Recovery, I can boot and use my laptop with the clone with no problem whatsoever) If that's true, i.e., Acronis produces exact clone, then wouldn't the checksums or signatures should be the same between the 2 drives? My thinking is that since the source and target drive are practically identical (same manufacturer/model/size) and if the cloning is byte-by-byte or even sector-by-sector then at the end, the target drive should be identical to the source drive. My Lenovo laptop (Y400) has Windows 8 in an UEFI platform so I have to extract the hard drive and move to another non-UEFI computer to perform the cloning via the Recovery CD (otherwise UEFI will prevent the Recovery CD from booting successfully).

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