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upgrading hard drive on laptop - most painless way to transfer drive image? techman41973 04-05-2005
Posted by techman41973 on April 5, 2005, 10:05 pm
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 I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
drive.
Thanks



Posted by Andrew on April 6, 2005, 5:22 am
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 techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
: I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
: equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
: drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
: don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
: drive.

Get a USB enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive, then clone the current
drive to the new drive, then swap the new drive in. I use Acronis True Image
instead of Symantec's Ghost, but in your case, you might want to buy a
Symantec software bundle that includes Ghost and Partition Magic, so
after you clone the drive to the new one, you can re-size the two 15GB
partitions to be two 30GB partitions (or whatever you want them to be
now).

If you already have an external hard drive, you could make images
(with Ghost or True Image) of the two partitions and save them to the
external drive (assuming you have 30GB laying around), then swap in
the new drive, boot from the recovery disk you made in Ghost or True
Image, and install each partition on the new drive.

Andrew
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Posted by Ye Electric Fanne Clubbe on April 6, 2005, 10:13 am
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> techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
> : I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
> : equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
> : drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
> : don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
> : drive.
>
> Get a USB enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive, then clone the current
> drive to the new drive, then swap the new drive in. I use Acronis True
Image
> instead of Symantec's Ghost, but in your case, you might want to buy a
> Symantec software bundle that includes Ghost and Partition Magic, so
> after you clone the drive to the new one, you can re-size the two 15GB
> partitions to be two 30GB partitions (or whatever you want them to be
> now).
>

Maplin (in the UK) are currently knocking out a USB2 to IDE cable for about
£40 or so. Cheaper than an enclosure and useful for other things. It only
works with UDMA disk drives though.

Ian.





Posted by Veritech on April 6, 2005, 2:12 pm
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ebuyer got the full usb 2.0 enclosure for a tener

www.ebuyer.com

>
>> techman41973@yahoo.com wrote:
>> : I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
>> : equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
>> : drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
>> : don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
>> : drive.
>>
>> Get a USB enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive, then clone the current
>> drive to the new drive, then swap the new drive in. I use Acronis True
> Image
>> instead of Symantec's Ghost, but in your case, you might want to buy a
>> Symantec software bundle that includes Ghost and Partition Magic, so
>> after you clone the drive to the new one, you can re-size the two 15GB
>> partitions to be two 30GB partitions (or whatever you want them to be
>> now).
>>
>
> Maplin (in the UK) are currently knocking out a USB2 to IDE cable for
> about
> £40 or so. Cheaper than an enclosure and useful for other things. It
> only
> works with UDMA disk drives though.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>




Posted by Time Teamer on April 6, 2005, 6:15 am
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>I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2
> equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig
> drive. What is the easiest way to transfer my drive image, so that I
> don't need to install Windows XP and all of my applications on the new
> drive.
> Thanks
>

Acronis True Image 8

http://www.acronis.com/





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