I'm buying a new Hard drive for my laptop and I just want to copy everything from the old to the new. Is this possible? Are there special software considerations I should use? How do I hook them up?
I have a Presario 2100 and I'm buying a WD scorpio hard drive.
2006-08-31 01:51:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The easiest way would be to buy an IDE to USB adapter and hook it up that way. Then use a hard drive cloning software to copy the hard drive exactly.
2006-08-31 01:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other responses missed the point and won't work for what you are trying to do.
You will need to get some backup software on the lines of Norton ghost, although I don't care for Norton's Ghost program it does work but a little to complicated for the average person.
I preffer using Backup to DVD/CD it is much easier to work with and give you the option to choose backing up to a DVD burner or CD burner which ever you have, while it's not as fast as Ghost is it does work quite well, and will make as many CD/DVD's as needed to backup the entire hard drive to disks.
Once you put the new hard drive in just put the first backup disk in the CD/DVD drive and (make sure that the computer is set to boot from CD/DVD drive) and turn the computer on and the program will auto boot from the backup disk and walk you through restoring the software from the old drive to the new drive.
2006-08-31 10:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by Mollison_98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Connect both the hard drive to the comp and transfer the data and then disconnect it . . .
2006-08-31 08:55:20 · answer #3 · answered by sailesh s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They use to make a program called lap-link. I wonder if someone bought them out.
2006-08-31 08:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋