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How do you take a laptop hard drive and transfer all of it in the same format to a larger drive?

Some instructions would greatly appreciated.

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mechmike0034

You'll need either a USB enclosure for the drive, or a USB-to-laptop IDE connector to do the transfer.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SubCategory=92

Basically, you'll put the new drive in the enclosure and connect it via USB externally, run whatever copy utility you use to copy the drive contents over, and then physically mount the new drive inside the laptop in place
of the old.

I use RawCopy from a UBCD4WIN bootable CD rather than from the hard drive I am copying over.

http://ubcd4win.com

You might also look at DriveImage XML: http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

Acronis TrueImage7 is available for free from here: http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7 (registration required - once you register you can log in and download the software.)

User guide for TrueImage7 here: http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/...e7.0_ug.en.pdf

HDClone might work as well: http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html


You won't need the utilities if you already have Ghost.

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bachviet

Ghost it into DVD, then install new drive, and re-ghost.

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