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Restore Thinkpad r40 on different storage

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Restore Thinkpad r40 on different storage

#1 Post by depeo » Thu Jan 16, 2025 3:42 pm

Hii,

I was able to backup the HPA on my Thinkpad R40 in his thread:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=137080

Now, I replaced the original drive with a m-sata to ide 2.5 adapter. After doing that I installed windows 98?SE, which worked fine.
I tried to restore the HPA by creating another fat32 oartutuin at the end of the disk, after that I entered win98 ms dos mode and ran:
cd d:
FWRESTOR FILE=IMGSEET verify

Right away I get the error 'Error: The specified drive is not FirstWare compatible'.

The drive is a m-sata with the following partition scheme:
c: 566060 FA32
d: 4496

Any ideas?
I could just clone the old drive, but I want the restore to work by itself.

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