IBM Thinkpad Hard Drive Help

[dannybek]

I have an T40. The hard drive was making noises so I purchased a new one. Since I did not have a system disk I planned to use a disk cloning program. The problem is how can I clone what is on my old drive to the new drive. This isn't like a desktop computer were I can duplicate hard drives. Any suggestions?

 

[esun]

Get an external enclosure. They aren't very expensive, maybe $10-$20. Make sure it's a 2.5" enclosure.

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: dannybek
This isn't like a desktop computer were I can duplicate hard drives.

Or so you thought!

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

Two of these is a whopping $6.

I'd use a Linux distro like Knoppix, as Linux partition management tools rock.