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Best way to copy notebook HD if one's dying????

redgtxdi

redgtxdi

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So, I might have to go to a buddy's house and he lives quite a ways away. I suppose I cuold "road trip" a desktop & try to get things rolling by running a slave setup & copying or something, but was curious if there's an *easy* way of restoring a system after replacing an HD.

He's got a SONY Vaio laptop and it's about 3 years old and the HD is dying. He already bought a new HD but doesn't want to do anything 'til I get there.

I've had great success with Seagate/Maxtor's included HD copiers when doing desktops, but laptops only have one HD channel & I just don't know how to do a copy/restore like this.

TIA!
 
I believe that you can use some software such as Norton Ghost and make an image of the hard drive either on the hard drive or over the network. I would look into that, and see what options are available. I'm guessing you could make an image, copy it over a network to a desktop/another LAN, and then copy the image back on the hard drive.

I may be making this stuff up...but I think this is possible
 
Get a 2.5" HDD External enclosure (Less than $15.00 at *bay or even at Newegg, since he already has the hdd) and then you can either use the Maxblast and copy the hdd to the ext hdd and then switch the hdd when you are done. Or you can image it using Ghost. Either way is acceptable although, I prefer using direct cloning since after the cloning you can just switch the hdd and try. If it doesn't work then try the imaging. One advantage of direct cloning is that it involves single step. You do not have to worry creating and restoring image wherein you cannot be sure if the image was accurate with or the restore was done properly. For back up solutions of course, you cannot beat imaging since it saves on hdd space. Until you are satisfied with the cloned or restored hdd do not format or erase the old hdd.
 
Doh!! Sorry it took me so dang long to reply!!

I didn't even think of an enclosure!! DOh!!!!!

I don't own Ghost, so would definitely have to use something like "MaxBlast" to do a clone, then see if it worked! But definitely worth a try!!!

Thanks for the suggestions!!!!! :thumbsup:
 
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