> The new hard drive is a Toshiba but i cant find Acronis or similar on > their website. The only downloads i can find are for Toshiba laptops.
It looks like Toshiba doesn't license any of these. Who makes your old/current HD? You can use their software as well (obviously the old HD will be attached during the whole operation). I also once used a USB drive from WD and the WD version of Acronis tools to clone from a Hitachi drive to a Seagate drive. A drive that goes with the software only needs to be attached, it doesn't need to be used for anything. People are talking about Easus software, let me strongly warn against it. It is probably the slowest cloning software out there, and if it encounters anything it doesn't like (eg, a single mistake in a single file) it will hammer away at it for hours. Moreover, it has no "soft" exit strategy, which means that if you start it and realize immediately that it is going to take 40 hours, you have to let it finish - if you shut it down in any way (eg, you yank the drive, or the laptop decides to hibernate) you will lose 100% of your data. I lost 320 gigabytes with it recently (fortunately I had a backup). David _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
