You have to get an external case in order to copy the old hard drive to the new hard drive (if you are not just going to load the operating system on the hard drive and start from scratch). You would use Symantec Ghost or a similar program to easily transfer the data once you had one hard drive installed in an external hard drive case (hooked up via USB 2.0 or firewire).
The external cases are not that expensive and you can even use your old hard drive later this way to store video or music files, etc (but you can't boot off an external hard drive). See Newegg.com, etc for options .. you can seach at X1000forums.com (my user site) in the upgrades or technical areas for this topic.......
Hi,
I have a 40Gb 4200 RPM drive in my laptop. I want to purchase a 60Gb 5400 and use that instead, but I want to copy or image the 60Gb drive with everything from the 40Gb (i.e WIndows XP, all my apps, data etc)
1) What is the easiest way that this can be done, bearing in mind that the file contents are greater than 10Gb ?
2) Is there any freeware software which will enable me to do this easily ?
Thanks
Richard

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