This is the way I do it. I use a couple of 3,5" IDE to Notebook adapters. Amazon UK sell them so I am sure the American branch will do them. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Euronetwork-drive-laptop-adaptor-cable/dp/B000BB 0DDC
Stick these onto the second IDE cable. Make sure they are set up old hard disk Master and new one slave. Then I use a copy of Norton Ghost which boots from floppy disk. Some time the Ghost version does not work as expected so then I use Easy Clone. http://download.cnet.com/EasyClone-2008-Free/3000-2242_4-10737118.html I am getting more and more faulty SATA hard disks but these are easier as you can connect then straight to a desktop without using an adapter. Dells and Acers can be a bit funny about fitting different size and or models and wont boot of the new Hard Disk. I haven't come across any other makes with this problem. I use the above process a lot when asked to fit larger Hard Disks to Laptops and Desktops. Ghost will usually increase the partition size(s) if you clone to a larger Hard Disk. Easy Clone creates partitions of the same size as the original. But you can then use Partition Magic or the Easy Clone Partition Manager to increase the size(s). Cheers Peter Peter Hart Computers. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: 15 March 2009 18:16 To: [email protected] Subject: [NF] what is the best way to clone a notebook drive A client has a SMART disk error on her laptop and she's getting a replacement disk. The hard disk she has now is working fine, but it's "re-allocated sector count" is getting close to the threshold. I want to clone her current hard disk onto the new replacement disk, what's the easiest way to do this? I want to do this rather than re-installing a gazillion software products and updates onto her computer. That notebook she's using has a hard disk that is easily removable. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af04c...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
