how to clone/ghost a laptop hard drive

junkster12345

hi guys,

i have recently installed windows 7 32 bit on my girlfriends dell inspiron 640m laptop , its a few yrs old and the hard drive capacity is not enough to hold everything she needs (OS ,programs etc), so we need to upgrade the hard drive's storage capacity.

if i buy a new sata 2.5" internal hard drive for the laptop , what other tools will i need to pretty much make a carbon copy of the old drive onto the new one and then replace the old with the new.

will i need some kind of sata to usb adapter/cable ??... to connect the new hard drive to the laptop and then go through the clone process ??

what is the best software program for cloning the drive and is it free or will i need to purchase it.

any info would be greatly appreciated.

regards,

paul.

ricman

theres 2 free programs here here,http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055939764


use easus disk copy,copy the old hardrive to the new one,you,ll have to format the new hd first , use ntfs format.
usb to sata cable 20 euro approx in maplins,peats,pc world.
see www.easus.com disk copy ,download.
if you really want to buy something buy something, a program called ghost is designed for cloning hd,or backup hds .
but easus will do the job fine.

put plastic tape on the hd ,underside pcb, to gaurd against short circuits, or static damage.
put a small layer of tape on the new hd ,pcb, underneath, at least while its outside the pc.A 500GB drive is 99euro in peats .

see here http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=21069&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

junkster12345

ricman wrote: »

theres 2 free programs here here,http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055939764


use easus disk copy,copy the old hardrive to the new one,you,ll have to format the new hd first , use ntfs format.
usb to sata cable 20 euro approx in maplins,peats,pc world.
see www.easus.com disk copy ,download.
if you really want to buy something buy something, a program called ghost is designed for cloning hd,or backup hds .
but easus will do the job fine.

put plastic tape on the hd ,underside pcb, to gaurd against short circuits, or static damage.
put a small layer of tape on the new hd ,pcb, underneath, at least while its outside the pc.A 500GB drive is 99euro in peats .

see here http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_product=1&id=21069&sid=14&cid=116&scid=305

ok thanks for that information , i will probably order the cable and drive off ebay as im not im a major hurry to get it done, i will post back here as soon as i get the job done.

again , thanks a lot !!

Alanstrainor

If you only recently installed Win 7 it may be just as easy to just reinstall the OS and copy files across/reinstall apps.

lapwlover

Try this free clone software, todo backup. Besides cloning, it can do schedule backup set, incremental backup, differential backup. Differential/Incremental backup and automatic backup

Save PC to a safe place - FTP, CD/DVD, Network
One-click to backup system state

corpo3030

http://www.integralmemory.com/news/integral-hard-drive-copy-station-clone-drives-ease
There's this as well, very simple to use no software needed.