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Help copying over internal HDD to external

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NeoPTLD

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I have a laptop with 40GB 4200RPM drive. I bought an 80GB 7200RPM 2.5" drive and have access to a USB2.0 external enclosure.

How can I transfer the contents of C drive from the current internal drive to one of the partitions on the external drive, so that I can swap it in after copying and have the laptop boot off from the new drive?

More specifically, I want to copy the contents of partially full 20GB partition to a 40GB partition on a new drive without affecting the partition size of the new one. I don't want the new partition to become 20GB. After the copying, I want to physically swap out the drives and boot up.


I am looking for a solution that doesn't involve buying a software.
 
To have the target drive be bootable, you really need cloning software. You can clone partitions to partitions so that they remain bootable.

But, I don't know of any freeware that does it. There may be some, but unknown to me. I would use Acronis TrueImage 9.

Anyway - it's a bump.
 
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