D2D restore

I have a D150 and wife has a D250 I have made clonezilla disk copy of both and restored it and that works good. I have the Acer Restore disk and when I restore with them I no longer have the PQService partition (6-8 Gb). It is included in the clonezilla disk copy and I have the PQService partition as a partition copy with clonezilla. Oh I am trying to get D2D working on a new drive inserted into the different computers. I have not changed the original drive and believe it will work on them but I can't5 move the option to the new drive.

Now the question... How do I get my D2D restore working? I have tried Alt+F10 with no results.

 

is it enabled in the actual BIOS ?
I know it's in there as an option because I disabled it

 

If you restore from the Acer recovery disks the PQService is not reinstalled, only the OS & Apps. Look in the posts regarding Windows 7, there is a "step by step" on how to reestablish the D2D, as 7 rewrites the MBR, you may need to do the same to get the cloned disk images to work on the new drive

Q-6

 

Yes it is enabled.

Thanks for the replies.

After more searching I found out that adding Linux with Grub and the changes it makes to the MBR makes the D2D not work.

Now I am wondering if booting from the SDHC card and running Linux from the hard drive will require the SDHC card to be in the slot all the time. Also from what I read it may be possible to put a link for a particular file, in the PQService partition, into the Grub listing and run the D2D from there but I can't find anything that says which file to link to. Since I know almost nothing about Grub I'll have to do a lot of research or hope some nice person tries it or tried it and lets me know what to do. If I get it working then I'll post on the forum how I did it.

 

Ok I have already learned a couple things. I copied the line I use to boot into Mandriva from the hard drive and pasted it into the menu.lst on my SDHC Mandriva card. I had to change the (0,4) to (1,4) hard drive designation to get it to work but it does work and then I removed the Mandriva SDHC card and inserted a storage SDHC card with no problem. Now if I can fix my D2D function then by booting from the SDHC card I can have Windows, Linux and D2D working together.