Cloning Drive

[charlietee]

I have a Dell laptop that the USB ports are not working on. It has a 320gig 5400rpm Segate and I want to clone the entire hard drive to including the restore partition to a 750gig 7200rpm Hitachi Travelstar.

Since the USB ports are not working I need to remove the hard drive from the laptop and install it in a external USB enclosure and do the same with the new Travelstar and connect them both to my desktop.

I usually use Macrium's boot disk and just clone the drive via USB but have never tried to clone a drive with them removed from the computer I am trying to clone the drive from. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[corkyg]

Cloning one USB external to another should be no problem. Since they will be connected to your desktop, they are not actually without a computer.

I have never used Macrium Reflex - but assume it can do a proportional clone job with different size drives.

 

[charlietee]

Yeah I have never tried it. The owner broke the tab on one of the usb ports. Never seen one take all of them out.

Guess I will give it a whirl and see what happens. Thank you for the reply !!!!