CHANGING Hard Drives on a LAPTOP ?  | | 
October 31st, 2004, 12:59 AM
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| | Prof. of DooGlian Studies
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| CHANGING Hard Drives on a LAPTOP ?
How is the switch made if one doesn't have the OS +SW discs ?
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October 31st, 2004, 01:16 AM
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Image the drive, use Norton Ghost or DriveImage. | |
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October 31st, 2004, 01:33 AM
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| | Prof. of DooGlian Studies
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I'll make you an expresso on Sunday --if Gait_keeper don't hog the Cap machine.
Not having the OS discs, (win98 or 98SE --is that a problem with Ghost or Drive Image (which is now Ghost because it was bought out).
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November 13th, 2004, 10:10 PM
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Doog,
You won't need the original OS disks. Create an image using Ghost of your old HD, then put the image on the new HD. The easiest way to do this would be to buy an adapter that goes from IDE on your desktop to the laptop HD connector . Then hook up the old Laptop HD to your desktop via the adapter, copy the image to your desktop and then unhook the old laptp HD (after turning off power) and hook up the new laptop HD and put the image you placed on your desktop on the new HD.
-RADAR
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November 13th, 2004, 10:19 PM
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you'll have to get a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter
then it is a 2 step process....
take the hard drive out of the laptop...use the adapter and ghost it to a spare hard drive
then switch laptop drives and ghost from that spare drive back over to the new laptop drive
JP
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November 13th, 2004, 10:37 PM
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Taht will only work if hes got multiple partitions already.
You cannot simply create and save an image of a partition onto the same partition you are trying to make an image of....
TCP/IP ghost solution, multiple partitions, or a laptop IDE adapter as JP suggested are about your only options (aside from burning it to a crapload of cds). | |
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November 13th, 2004, 11:54 PM
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You could get an external enclosure for a 2.5" drive, ghost the current hard drive to the new one, and then move the new drive into its new home inside the laptop.
Then you could put the old drive in the external enclosure and use it for backup/portable storage solution
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November 14th, 2004, 12:08 AM
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true..the cd method would work
just do "disk to image" and point it to your cd burner
use "high" compression...
of course if you have 40g of data it is goign to waste a lot of cd's, lol | |
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November 14th, 2004, 12:12 AM
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the external thing would rock....I have never used one with ghost...I need to though cuz I ghost a lot | |
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