I recently ran out of HDD space on my Lenovo X200 Tablet. To my amazement, the price for a 750GB 7200RPM notebook drive was only $89 so I jumped at it.
The process went very well... I use Paragon usually to do HDD migrations and have never had an issue. Connected the new drive to the SATA USB connector I have, did a HDD copy from the bootable paragon CD, and BAM! I was booting into Windows 7.
Then... things went weird. I was able to login fine and do most things perfectly, however I could not run updates... the error was telling me that the service was unavailable or stopped. Odd?!
I opened "run" and typed services.msc to open and check the service. I then got a popup I was definitely not used to. The services.msc application was stating it was an "Unknown publisher" and the UAC was complaining. Uhm excuse me?
So I checked a few other things. Control Panel, everything... I opened it and got Unknown Publisher UAC warnings. Not good. So, I talked to a few people (including the nice people at Paragon) and found that they have had some issues with specific USB hubs... ok easy enough.
I still had the old drive, so I popped it back in and ... voila. All is well there. After 4 more hours of transferring I restored the image without the USB connection. Strange, I still have the same issue. Perhaps it was the enterprise McAfee AV settings? Uninstalled, imaged, restored. Same issue. I probably formatted and restored a backup using 3 different programs and with 4 or 5 different applications removed or tweaked. After about 10 fruitless efforts to restore the image, I decided that nothing I was doing effected it.
So fine, I give up. My Windows profile must be corrupt or something. I will re-install Windows 7 and get on with my life.
Once that was done I didn't have the issue and all was well! Hooray... life goes on. Except once I did the ThinkVantage updates, I had the same issue again. I had a nerd-filled conniption at my in-laws staring at the "Unknown Publisher" UAC warning after trying to open the device manager.
I couldn't understand it at first, but then I thought about what must have happened. The updated driver must have installed the night before and when I rebooted it took effect.
Hmmm...! So after some searching I found this on an HP website. Apparently specific HDD controllers from Intel require an updated service pack to properly run partitions greater than 700GB.
Would be nice if LENOVO would have some information about this. Or Microsoft, or Intel... I can't believe how hard this was to find.
After two weeks of Googling this, trying different fixes and working any option I could think of... I am 100% again with a massive new HDD. I have to admit, I even tried Bing to find a fix :)
So, without further ado below is the link that _will_ work for you if you have the same issues I had. I hope this has helped you. If this link dies for some reason, contact me and I will email the file to you.
