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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Swapping HDDs |
My lappy HDD is too full (I keep struggling to keep even 400MB free on C:\ !!!) so I bought a new replacement one. What's the easiest way to sort out the new HDD? Reinstall everything from scratch? Ghost everything across? I just want to make sure there's nothing left behind/forgotten to copy across/install when I put the new HDD on. |
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| Author: | bally199 [ Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs |
Use Acronis True Image. I don't know if it'll work (as laptops only have one IDE channel for HDDs), but if you've got a USB caddy or something along the lines of that, you could try it. Other than that, install fresh. Or just delete all your super secret squirrel porn. 
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs |
If you have XP and a floppy, then you could use Windows Backup. If it's Vista, then you don't need a floppy because you use the Vista CD to boot from. Last time I did this I used Acronis or something similar. It came free on the PCpro cover disk. Backed up to an external USB drive, created a recovery boot CD, swapped the drives and recovered. It really was quite easy. It talks your through it. However, it's always good to re-install. You can get a USB - IDE adaptor for a few pounds and recover your stuff that way, or just copy the whole thing to a USB drive. It really depends how much time you have to get it all back together! |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs |
^^^Unfortunately the laptop comes with USB and DVD-burner only, no FDD. I have a USB caddy for when I had to pull files off my sister's broken laptop so could easily use that. Was gonna spend some time in a coupla weeks when I have annual leave. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:22 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs | |||||||||
That would be my suggestion too. Though I'm not sure if you could enlarge the single partition or whether the extra capacity would have to be a second partition. |
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| Author: | trigen_killer [ Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:27 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs | |||||||||
I am pretty sure that with True Image you can either recreate a partition as an exact duplicate or simply carry the data over to the new system and give it room to stretch it's legs across the whole drive. Clone would copy the drive, but if you simply restore an image to another drive it will only put back the data. I think that's right, but I can't check at the moment because I don't have True Image installed on this system *logs off to install True Image* |
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| Author: | JohnSheridan [ Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Swapping HDDs |
Acronis True Image Home should allow you to "clone" the hard drive providing both are connected to the laptop at the same time. Last time I looked you could download their software on a 15day trial basis. |
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