I have a Toshiba A40 series laptop with a 2.5 ? 40GB HDD. I wish to clone my HDD with an external HDD so that I can simply get someone to insert it in the laptop if the original HDD fails. Misco sell an Ultra enclosure with a Toshiba 2.5 40GB HDD. Could I clone my hard drive onto onto it and it could be removed from the enclosure and inserted into my laptop in the event of failure of the HDD?
Would a cloned HDD work as a replacement HDD or would some windows components be missing or not functional? Perhaps I am wasting my time and would be better just buying a new HDD if the original one fails. Its the thought of all the updates and loss of useful settings and software that bothers me. Thanks for any help that you can give me!
2007-01-01 03:31:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
What you need to do is make an exact copy of the HDD.
This is known as 'cloning'.
I suggest you do your own research (since this will help you understand the process). Start here :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning
2007-01-03 06:52:54 · answer #1 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋