Solved: HDD swap and preserving OKR

[72guy]

OKR sounds good in theory, but I am starting not to care because it really does not help you if your hard drive crashes or you upgrade your hard drive. I guess I will upgrade my hard drive and stick with good old backup discs.

My thoughts exactly. My new HDD arrives tommorow. I'm first going to attempt a clone. CMS Products claims their data transfer software clones the HD including hidden partitions. I'll find out. If OKR doesn't work after the clone, I'm going to swap back to my OEM HD and format the new HD. Then I'll install my recovery discs on the new HD. I'm hoping there will be no evidence of OKR at this point. I will then install ShadowProtect imaging software and call it good.

[dwogs]

OKR sounds good in theory, but I am starting not to care because it really does not help you if your hard drive crashes or you upgrade your hard drive. I guess I will upgrade my hard drive and stick with good old backup discs.

My thoughts exactly. My new HDD arrives tommorow. I'm first going to attempt a clone. CMS Products claims their data transfer software clones the HD including hidden partitions. I'll find out. If OKR doesn't work after the clone, I'm going to swap back to my OEM HD and format the new HD. Then I'll install my recovery discs on the new HD. I'm hoping there will be no evidence of OKR at this point. I will then install ShadowProtect imaging software and call it good.

Please let us know how OKR ends up after you clone. Good luck.

[72guy]

Please let us know how OKR ends up after you clone. Good luck.

dwogs,
I'll let ya know. To tell you the truth. I'm doing the clone just to see what happens to OKR. I don't really care to keep the OKR program because I think there are much better tools on the market. I'll post my results, but I'll probably format my new HD even if OKR functions after the clone. And given the fact that Lenovo won't even support their own product if something as basic as a HDD upgrade is performed -----well, I just don't have anything nice to say on that.
regards, Dave

[jaqiefox]

I don't really care to keep the OKR program because I think there are much better tools on the market.

Yeah no bloody kidding. it uses windows vista embedded which makes me gag on its own, not to mention it has bugs before you update that kept me from being able to even burn backup CDs.. it's just crap IMO and I want a bloody OS CD.

[72guy]

Performed my HDD clone. Everything booted up fine. Checked out the OKR features. I performed a full backup, ripped a CD to My Music and performed an incremental Backup, and then burned 3 Recovery Discs. Shutdown the computer and hit the OKR key and all it it did was act like a power on key and boot the computer. It did not take me to the Recovery/Backup/Virus page. I shut it back down and booted to my Recovery discs and they worked. I booted the cloned HDD normally and uninstalled all the OKR folders, I think. I've still got a Driver folder on the D drive just as it was with the OEM HDD. Can someone confirm it's OK to delete this folder? I'm going to load ShadowProtect to replace OKR and look at partitioning the new HDD.

[vulariter]

The best imaging software I've used is CloneZIlla Live, which is open source and does an incredible job. I haven't, however, had a chance to use it with the S10 yet, since I'm awaiting its delivery, but I have used it on my Lenovo R61.

-vulariter

[the80y]

I work for a computer re-seller and refurbisher, who recently bought about a thousand Overstock/ Open box Lenovo products that we are refurbing. A few of the units required drive replacements, and the only program we have that will clone these drives with OKR working has been Acronis Trueimage, we are using the bootable CD based enterprise version. The problem with most cloning tools like ghost is that they grab only the partitions and assume a standard Master Boot Record (MBR), on theses Lenovo's they have a larger (4 sectors) than standard (1 sector) TrueImage seems to get everything. I have read that you can accomplish this using ghost as well, but it requires some command line switches and is more trouble.

[Narcotic_nod]

Hi
I've just had a real Doh!!! moment while messing with powerquest partition editor, i normally make a note of any changes before i make them but for some reason this time it slipped my mind. So could somebody let me know what the settings are for drive 1 (type 1/2/3)

many thanks

[spiker]

I had installed OSX along with the original setup, and OKR button launched once, but wouldn't restore. Had to hard shutdown and then the machine wouldn't boot by OKR or Power Button, just a NT Boot Loader error. I put the acronis true image back on the factory drive, however the OKR button won't start ORK. Any Suggestions would be helpful.

[mashi]

i did try to use acronis trueimage.. okr didn't work

I work for a computer re-seller and refurbisher, who recently bought about a thousand Overstock/ Open box Lenovo products that we are refurbing. A few of the units required drive replacements, and the only program we have that will clone these drives with OKR working has been Acronis Trueimage, we are using the bootable CD based enterprise version. The problem with most cloning tools like ghost is that they grab only the partitions and assume a standard Master Boot Record (MBR), on theses Lenovo's they have a larger (4 sectors) than standard (1 sector) TrueImage seems to get everything. I have read that you can accomplish this using ghost as well, but it requires some command line switches and is more trouble.