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New laptop hdd

  • 30-01-2009 12:44pm
    #1
    JJJJNR
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    Hi,

    I 've just bought a new hdd for my laptop, can someone suggest how I would back up my current drive and get it across to the new one.

    I think ghosting the drive but how would I get the image back on the new drive..


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  • #2
    logger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭logger


    JJJJNR wrote: »
    Hi,

    I 've just bought a new hdd for my laptop, can someone suggest how I would back up my current drive and get it across to the new one.

    I think ghosting the drive but how would I get the image back on the new drive..

    Ghosting should work fine, if your new disk is larger of course.

    Is writing ghosted image to DVD an option ?

    Other option could be to save the image to an external drive, or better still your old hard disk, then buy a usb drive caddy suitable for taking old hard disk, plug it into laptop with new hard disk installed and restore the image. This will also give you the added advantage of being able to recycle your old drive as an external drive.

    This particular model will work with both IDE and SATA laptop drive if you are not sure which one you require.
    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=339051

    Alternatively one that does IDE or SATA only may be even cheaper.


    Be careful though some software may have licence information, and this may be tied into your hard disk serial number, so if this is the case the software on the restored image may not work.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
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    some hard drive manufacturers offer utilies to clone to their brand of drives check the web site

    what OS are you using ?


  • #4
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    I'm using XP and its a IBM T43 Series laptop.

    Another thing I would like to do is install ubuntu on the old disk, is this difficult.

    Thanks all


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    provided you don't have any strange hardware ,
    installing ubuntu is dead easy , the hardest part is freeing up space on the drive for it to use.

    XP is designed not to be copied

    the long winded way is to backup you computer with ntbackup including system state, preferrably in safe mode so fewer files are open
    install XP on the new drive ( IIRC IBM use a recovery partiition on the old drive but if you have a restore DVD use it here to save time/hassle)
    apply the service pack
    restore the ntbackup job, choosing the option not to overwrite newer files

    takes bloody ages , the lovely thing about ubuntu is you can boot from the live CD and surf the net while installing :)


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