Maybe this will help. Just finished upgrading my notebook HDD to a Momentus 160 GB 7200.2 SATA drive. I installed Discwizard on my notebook and tried to clone the HDD to the new Seagate drive on a USB docking station (Thermaltake BlacX). The problem I ran into was Discwizard would not run as it wouldn't recognize the make of the HDD on the USB controller and my internal drive was Hitachi so it would give me the "Discwizard must find one Seagate/Maxtor product to run" error. I tried Seagate tech support and the best solution they could think of was buy the full version of Acronis disk imaging software. So I thought about it and solved the problem as follows:
1. Use Bootable Media Builder to make a full version of Discwizard on CD.
2. Shutdown the notebook and remove the existing HDD from the notebook (Hitachi in this case) and install the new Seagate HDD.
3. Place the old HDD in the USB Docking Station.
4. Configure the notebook bios to boot from CD/DVDRW drive.
5. Boot from CD and run Discwizard. Discwizard will now run as it is able to identify a Seagate/Maxtor product on the notebooks SATA controller.
6. Clone the drives selecting the Hitachi drive (#2) on USB as the source and the Seagate drive (#1) as the destination.
7. Adjust partition(s) size if necessary. My notebook (Lenovo) has a second boot partition for recovery/security software as most do. Discwizard by default will size the two new partitions proportionally. I scaled the recovery partition down to the same size as the source drives as that is all that is needed and so no room is wasted.
I filed this report off the Lenovo notebook booted from the new Seagate HDD. Took just under 2 hours to clone the drives, Hitachi 5400rpm 100GB on USB to Seagate 160GB Momentus on the SATA controller.
Best regards,
fitch
