I am upgrading the disk on my Lenovo T61P, trying to get as much life out of it as possible. Using Seagate Disk Wizard or booting from a Windows repair disk and restoring from a system image give me very similar results: Windows Update will not work, User Account Control pops up when accesing computer manangement or the command window, and the UAC popup says publisher unknown for these items. If I try to so an in-place wiodows 7 upgrade, the process goes almost to completion and terminates with the "cannot install to this hardware" mesage. When I wipe out the new drive and do a clean install of Windows 7, the install completes properly. I tried the hot fix that is supposed to take care of the windows update issue, (KB982018) but it will not install on the new system, and was already installed on the old system before cloning. I removed the Intel Turbo Memory card per Lenovo's recommendations, but this did not make any differerence. I re-flashed my BIOS ( had been using a hacked BIOS that enables SATA 2 speed on this machine) and this also did not make any difference. At ths time I am runing the easy transfer wizard on the old disk (another 4 hours wasted) and I am planning to clear the new drive and start with a clean install of windows 7 and all programs. This will actually take less time than I have already spent waiting for multiple drive clone and backups to complete. I am still hoping someone has a fix for this.

I also ran seatools diagnostics on both drives - 1 bad sector in partition 2 of the old drive (repaired) and no chkdsk errors on either drive.

You are essentially on your own since you are using third party software to clone the HDD and the fact that you are trying to clone from a 320GB to a 750GB. Windows 7 backup and restore only functions correctly when the two drives are the same capacity. You can search the internet for a utility that claims it will do what you want, but I don't know of one offhand. You can checkout http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/ to see if it might be of any help. The situation you created is not a Microsoft nor a Windows 7 problem. There are many factors to look at when you embark on a project such as this.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

If you have an external drive that you use for backups, you can create a disk image of your old disk using something like Acronis True Image (Seagate's DiscWizard is basically a free limited version of ATI). With the full version (and maybe in DiscWizard), you can create a boot disk that will allow you to run it without going into Windows; it starts its own interface from which to create the image. After that, shut down the laptop, put the new HDD in, start from the boot CD, and restore the image to the new drive. There are options in the restore process that allow you to use the whole drive (resizing the partition to the full drive). Once that's done, remove the CD, boot up, and everything should be as it was on the smaller disk, except now you have more free space. There are other imaging programs that allow the creation of a boot CD, but I haven't used anything other than ATI in a very long time. SC Tom

I think I found the problem - Intel Matrix Storage Manager. With the new drive, I was able to allocate 100GB to system restore, and install the lenovo drivers one at a time. That driver causes the problems I have been seeing, and they can be solved with system restore to an earlier system state. I don't know if the drivers can be easily uninstalled before or after cloning. At this time I am better off with a clean install, especially since the old disk had been upgraded from Vista, and this forces some much needed cleanup anyway. Device manager still shows 2 base system devices without driversl I assume they are related to the Intel storage controller issue. when I have more time, I will repost this on a Lenovo or seagate forum.

If you have Windows 7 and not Service Pack 1, download and install the Offline version of the Service Pack for your operating system. After SP1 installs and reboots Windows, Windows Update works without a problem regardless of if you are using a cloned drive or not. (For me, it was 68 updates.)