Rob Bell wrote: > 1. Should be pretty easy. Just use disk imaging software like Ghost or > Acronis TrueImage to clone the entire disk. Those tools are flexible > enough to adapt an image of a smaller drive onto a larger drive. Using > a 2nd HDD adapter or a reliable external drive enclosure should make it > a snap. > 2. It shouldn't. The XP image on a ThinkPad should not require > activation or be affected by activation-related hardware changes. > 3. As mentioned above... > 4. No idea > 5. I moved from an 80GB 7200 rpm drive to a 320GB 5400 rpm drive in my > Dell Precision M65. I noticed nothing obvious, speed-wise. So many > other things in the environment collaborate to slow down a system, > especially a corporate laptop image like mine, that the disk is > probably
Ditto to everything Rob wrote (except I won't use Ghost at gunpoint and much prefer CMS DataTransfer), I'll just add that I've never seen any "large drive" problems with external enclosures for 2.5" HD up to and including 500GB capacity. 5) With the large HD capacities available today platter speed doesn't result in as a great a transfer improvement as we noted back when the original 7K60 was released. I predict you won't notice any difference in overall system speed from this "slower" HD. Regards, James _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
