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755112 2009-03-10 02:14:00 Heres a tutorial on using DriveImageXML:

lifehacker.com

Download Link:

www.runtime.org

Blam 		Blam (54)
755113 2009-03-10 02:35:00 Followed this thread intensely as I would like to replace my laptop's 80GB IDE hard drive with a larger one.

I never done this before and am therefore a bit nervous. May I ask a couple of questions:

1) what about disk partition when cloning drives. do they clone the same amount or the ratio?
2) can I replace my IDE drive with a EIDE or PATA one?
3) materials for hard drive replacement: new hard drive, hard drive enclosure, imaging program.

Your guys' words made it sound easy to do this work. Many thanks.


To answer the questions -

1) Depends on the software - some will copy exactly as is, others will allow the full use of the drive, resize the parttition.

2) same connections, just different names ( basically)

3) depends on how you are cloning, if you are connecting two drives to a PC, you can use the SATA or IDE connectors to join the drives.

As it is I'm currently cloning a customers laptop Drive to a standard IDE drive to save their data before I wipe the laptops drive (its corrupted to hell and back) heres the setup (www.imagef1.net.nz) if It were SATA I would simply use the connectors on the Motherboard.

Other item you need is a small philips screw driver to remove the Cover from the laptop to reveal the drive, and also some laptops have small screws holding the drive in - others use the cover screws.

As for software - I use either Paragon Disk Copy or Acronis. Seagate have a free version of Acronis called Diskwizard (www.seagate.com) - paragon have a free version thats given away on many Magazines, but is down loadable as well. 		wainuitech (129)
755114 2009-03-10 02:39:00 Followed this thread intensely as I would like to replace my laptop's 80GB IDE hard drive with a larger one.

I never done this before and am therefore a bit nervous. May I ask a couple of questions:

1) what about disk partition when cloning drives. do they clone the same amount or the ratio?
2) can I replace my IDE drive with a EIDE or PATA one?
3) materials for hard drive replacement: new hard drive, hard drive enclosure, imaging program.

Your guys' words made it sound easy to do this work. Many thanks.

1) You will need to clone the partitions seperately IIRC

2) IDE is compatible with PATA(same thing), not sure about EIDE, I think it is

3) Imaging program, driveimagexml as mentioned(free), 2.5" IDE enclosure 		Blam (54)
755115 2009-03-10 11:49:00 I noticed no one mentioned what was in the the laptop ide or sata?. shell49 (7096)
755116 2009-03-10 19:08:00 I noticed no one mentioned what was in the the laptop ide or sata?.
Post #5 first line says the bigger drive is
It is SATA 250gb 5,400rpm then in the original post it was mentioned
(I had an issue with my laptop and they thought it might have been the hard drive so changed it and it turned out it wasn't and anyway I've ended up with a spare larger hard drive). That would indicate the smaller drive in the laptop is sata as well, other wise the bigger drive would not fit. 		wainuitech (129)
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