Copying all of the laptop data to a bigger hard drive

[shah456]

I want to swap out a 40gb hard drive in my Thinkpad for a 80gb hard drive. I just want to copy my existing hard drive with everything to the new hard drive. How would I go about doing this?

 

[ShellGuy]

We went over this a ways back. I sugested using Acronis true image and restore the image to your new drive...

Will

 

[shah456]

Sorry I didn't see that post, if you have a link to it I will check it out. Thanks for your post.

 

[shah456]

bump

 

[Frightcrawler]

...Didn't ShellGuy answer your question already?
Basically, get a ghosting program, ghost to cd-r/rws, and unload on your new drive. If you dont have a burner, well.....

 

[ShellGuy]

If he don't have a burner then he can borrow a buddys computer and set up a network drive and burn to that one...


Will

 

[tyipengr]

I would go for a network backup (with another computer) and clean install. You'll find that you'll have oodles more storage without that pesky rapid restore crap on your computer eating up space.

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: Frightcrawler
unload on your new drive.

if i were using Norton ghost, how would i unload it on my new drive???

 

[alexruiz]

I suggest you should get an external enclosure (combo preferred) Ghost 2003 has support for firewire/USB 2.0. Just dump the old drive (now in the enclosure) to the new one in the laptop. Firewire recommended. Doing a backup from my M6805's 7K60 to a enclosed DK23FA (60 GB, 4200 rpm, 2MB) using "partition to image" writes sustained at 900-1100 MB/min using firewire. If firewire, it MUST be an Oxford 911 IDE bridge, or even better, the new Oxford 922.

I suggest to go a step further. I usually keep the data in a separate partition. That way I Ghost the programs partitions and then copy the data manually under windows (it is faster obviously)

 

[jai6638]

when i say unload it into my new drive, i mean unloading it from a cd / dvd and not from a external enclosure ( coz i dont have any atm )


thanks

 

[jai6638]

sorry for the double post...