Hard drive upgrade

[Guest]

I am upgrading my notebook computer hard drive to a 40 gig hard drive. How
can I backup the information from the old hard drive to be reinstall on the
new hard drive?
Kelly

 

[Santa]

use BACKUP my pc Demo it works

http://www.stompsoft.com/downloads.html

That is if you have a CD burner .. and 4 Floppy Disks

 

[Neal Koss]

Well, the thumb drives aren't big enough yet, or are they? How much of your
hard drive are you really backing up? Will you be installing a new Windows
on the new drive and then re-installing all your software or do you want a
direct copy of the old drive? Personally, I would want a fresh install, so
the only thing to back up is *data* and that may fit on some of the larger
thumb drives which are USB, by the way.

 

[Rodney Kelp]

One way is to backup your save data on a usb pen drive. You don't need to
back entire programs that you have the installation cd's for. Simply
reinstall the software on the new drive.
If you want to clone the old harddrive to the new then get a usb drive
enclosure for notebook drives. They have them. Either borrow one or buy one
and you can use it as a backup drive. You can boot a cd that has Norton
Ghost or other partition copier on it and copy from E to C. E would be the
usb old drive if the CD is D.