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How do I Driveimage 1 laptop HD to another Laptop HD!

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V00DOO

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I just broght a 5400RPM Hard drive to replace my 4200 RPM HD. I don't wish to reinstall WinXP Pro therefore is there a way to image my old laptop HD to the new one using Drive Image. I know on a regular PC, all there is to do install the new HD as the Slave drive and image it, but how do you add a slave drive to a laptop.

Thanks in advance
 
You need to get 2 notebook-ide->regular-ide adapters. They're not very expensive. Then you can hook up the drives to a desktop computer.
 
Thanks for the responds. How do I boot to load an image from a CD with a blank HD? I read somewhere compgeeks sells the adapter cheap, I may look into that.
 
Originally posted by: V00DOO
Thanks for the responds. How do I boot to load an image from a CD with a blank HD? I read somewhere compgeeks sells the adapter cheap, I may look into that.
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Norton Ghost will have you create a floppy or two to boot with and then you'll be able to restore the image of your old hard drive that you ghosted with cd-r's. Drive Image software is pretty much the same.
 
If have you an open bay for interchange parts like a CDROM/floppy or whatever like the Dell Latitude series of notebooks you can buy a special bay that you can put your second HD into and use as a second HD in your laptop. I don't think they're too expensive.

techfuzz
 
I have a maxtore external drive that I would like to use to backup my laptop. So that if I encounter problems I can restore the laptop. What is the best way to do that? The maxtore drive came with software that let me copy the laptops drive to my external drive. Can I restore the laptops drive with that?
 
Originally posted by: Jaylio
I have a maxtore external drive that I would like to use to backup my laptop. So that if I encounter problems I can restore the laptop. What is the best way to do that? The maxtore drive came with software that let me copy the laptops drive to my external drive. Can I restore the laptops drive with that?
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the software that came with your maxtor drive should let you restore. what was the name of the backup software?
 
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