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Harddrive help

  • 27-01-2012 10:39am
    #1
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    Hi guys
    I'm looking for some help with switching hard drives in 2 new laptops. Both are sata drives but in two different brand laptops and I would like to swop them around due to one being considerably larger which would suit that laptops needs better.

    Neither laptop came with backup discs but I've made my own. What I'm wondering is what to I need to do now. Is it a matter of swopping the drives, formatting then just install from the backup discs that I made? Or would there be an issue with backup partitions that area old originally be on both drives?


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  • #2
    dilallio
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    If you have a spare drive and a SATA USB caddy/cable you can use software like Acronis True Image to do the job.

    Acronis will allow you to clone the contents of one drive to another, so all you have to do is to clone the contents of one laptop (Drive A) to the external drive (Drive C).
    Then clone the 2nd laptop (Drive B) onto Drive A, and after that clone Drive C onto Drive B.

    The advantage of this method is you will not have to re-install Windows or Drivers or any installed applications or User Data, which can take a good while, especially if you have to apply loads of Windows updates.

    Just be aware that this will wipe any data you have on the eternal drive (Drive C)


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