Question:
Hi,
I want to replace my 40gb laptop HDD for a 120gb one.
I have a 2.5" USB caddy, can I use the caddy and another PC and simply copy the contents of the 40gb onto the 120gb then swap them over?
I am running XP home if that make a difference. I thought I read someware a long time ago XP limits the number of components you can change before it considers it a new system. I have only changed the RAM before.
Many thanks Tony
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IMHO, your best best is to get a copy of Acronis True Image. That'll image your 40Gb to the 120Gb disk in the USB caddy and automatically resize the partition(s). Then you can swap the drives and it'll boot fine.
Once you've done that, you can use Acronis to make backups to the old 40Gb drive.
Avoid Norton Ghost, it's a piece of garbage.
NB Go for a 7200 RPM drive, it speed up a laptop quite noticeably.
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Thanks for that, I though I could just copy and paste the drives, I did that once on a deskyop running 98.
I was going to buy this one from ebuyer:
its 5400 not 7200, does not look like they have a 7200 drive, I will have to do some more hunting.
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Hi Tony.
coincidentally, I am in the process of replacing my dead 40 gig. If yours is excess to requirements then please consider me for it.
I have been searching the 'net for drives and found this.
if it's of any use.
Also seem to be a lot of Western Digital drives a reasonable prices. don't know what they are like though but Maxtor is apparantly to be avoided.
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Hi Tony.
coincidentally, I am in the process of replacing my dead 40 gig. If yours is excess to requirements then please consider me for it.
I have been searching the 'net for drives and found this.
if it's of any use.
Also seem to be a lot of Western Digital drives a reasonable prices. don't know what they are like though but Maxtor is apparantly to be avoided.
Is this not a 3.5" drive though, the session has times out but its here:
search: 4804294
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if you get this moths PCW - vol 30 n3, then it has Paragon hard disk manager 6, this should do what you want as well.
Plus either last month or the month before that one of either PCpro or PCplus or even PCW have all three delivered and can't remember which one, but that had Acronis True Image not sure of version, but again should backup etc, you might even be able to get it from the sites download area
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if you get this moths PCW - vol 30 n3, then it has Paragon hard disk manager 6, this should do what you want as well.
Plus either last month or the month before that one of either PCpro or PCplus or even PCW have all three delivered and can't remember which one, but that had Acronis True Image not sure of version, but again should backup etc, you might even be able to get it from the sites download area
Brilliant, thanks for that I downloaded the full copy of Paragon disk copy 8 here:
They emailed me the serial for the full copy right away, thanks for the tip, now to find a good priced drive.
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I popped a Hitachi Travelstar E7K100 120Gb in my HP laptop. A tad pricey, but my laptop gets a lot of use (did someone say P2P?) and the E7K100 is supposed to be designed for 24*7 use.
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Thanks Rizla01 but my caddy only has a very old 6gb drive in it so the 40gb will be a nice upgrade for that and as it is self powered it will make a very nice itunes store to save even more space on my laptop.
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>I'm intrigued why you think ghost is a piece of garbage<
I bought a copy, one day it just silently failed. No error message, diagnostic, nothing. The agent icon just stopped showing up on the right of the XP status bar.
A few weeks ago my team tried to use the Ghost network backup. Failed. Ghost tells the domain controller it's a DOS app, Server 2003 domain controllers only allow Windows 2000 or better to access network resources. Rubbish programming - Norton could have spoofed the protocol.
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Quick question, I have the drive for my laptop and softeware and USB enclosure but before I copy the old drive onto the new drive (or plug the enclosure in) do I need to format it or does the software take care of that. I'm not sure where to start?
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I'm having peoblems.... help
Put it in the enclosure plugged it in but paragon is saying it is 127.9 GB instead of 160 GB.
I'm not sure what to do next.
I have a Toshiba Satellite P10-304 and have flashed the latest BIOS (27/04/06) although system information reports it as 28/12/04 ??
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There are different ways of measuring disk sizes that causes some confusion though that difference is a bit odd.
Has the disk been partitioned? Maybe paragon is reporting the size of a partition and not the entire disk.
Assuming that you do not require any of the data on the disk, format it and then see how big it is.
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I'm a bit lost what to do, when I try to partition it, again it only shows the max size as 128GB.
There are no current partitions.
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Have you looked at it under Manage?
Open “Windows Explorer”, right click “My Computer” and select “Manage”
Open “Storage” and see what shows under “Disk Management”
That will show you any partitions.
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The BIOS of your Tosh may only be able to see up to 128GB Drives - I am not def sure on that - can you try the enclosure attached to another pc/laptop ?
Or can you fit the disk and look in the Tosh's BIOS for the reported size ?
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If you find a "hidden partition" it may be the Toshiba restore/utils - Would be a good idea to copy that over too
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Thanks guys I was thinking Bios too but cant find anything online to prove it.
I have not got a suitable machine tonige to try another.
I have tried "manage" and again it reports back 128MB.
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I'm 99% sure its the BIOS.
If I go ahead will it work the same but just with 130GB instead of 160GB.
If they then put out a new BIOS (fingers crossed for Vista) will it then see the extra disk space or will I have to repartition the drive?
Would this work as an alternative. Partition it into a 100GB & 60GB drive on a machine that can see the space, would my pc then be able to see the two smaller spaces?
Thanks, I'm really a bit lost as to my best option now.
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The fact that an icon vanishes from your startup, could be nothing to do with the program, and more to do with your PC config. Just run it manually, reinstall it or check it is still enabled with msconfig.
I have backed up from a dos network boot disk with ghost to 2003 servers loads of times, so I'm not sure what you are referring to, as far as I know, it's not an issue, you just have to make sure you have the right drivers on the disk.
agree 100%, never had any probs with ghost - tiz def the way forward, especially on a simple issue like the ops