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casey.o
My laptop puter only has a 40g drive. I'd like to at least double that.
As soon as I find a deal on ebay, I'll probably buy one, but I'm not
sure how to clone the drive in a laptop. On a desktop computer I can
just plug in a second drive, and clone it. There is no place to plug a
second drive on a laptop.
I DO NOT have any install disks for this puter. It has XP Pro sp3. I
only have a XP home install CD. Plus I will need all the drivers and
stuff for this Lenovo laptop. I have two thoughts, but I'm not sure if
either will work.
1. Clone it to a USB external hard drive. But how can I boot it to
clone the drive back, with the new blank HD?
2. Buy one of those cables that can connect to any HD, and plug into
USB, then clone the current drive to the new drive (using XXclone).
This seems like the better option, except I will have to buy the cable
too, but it will get used again, so I'll buy it.
Will this work? In other words, once I plug in the cloned drive (new
bigger one), will it boot right up? Will I have to re-activate XP?
-OR-
Is it possible to boot the laptop from my XP home CD, then use the USB
ports to clone it back? I kind of doubt that????
I will also need to determine if the drive is IDE or SATA? How do I
know that?
There are tow rows of 21 pins (or maybe 20, it's hard to count them),
with one center pin missing. Then there are 4 more pins separated from
the others (power I assume). I'm very familiar with Desktop drives, but
not these laptop ones.
The drive I have now, is a hitachi model hts541040g9at00
40GB, 5400 rpm ATA/ IDE.
I guess I just answered my own question, regarding the type. it's an
IDE. Now it's just a matter of getting one, and cloning it.
As soon as I find a deal on ebay, I'll probably buy one, but I'm not
sure how to clone the drive in a laptop. On a desktop computer I can
just plug in a second drive, and clone it. There is no place to plug a
second drive on a laptop.
I DO NOT have any install disks for this puter. It has XP Pro sp3. I
only have a XP home install CD. Plus I will need all the drivers and
stuff for this Lenovo laptop. I have two thoughts, but I'm not sure if
either will work.
1. Clone it to a USB external hard drive. But how can I boot it to
clone the drive back, with the new blank HD?
2. Buy one of those cables that can connect to any HD, and plug into
USB, then clone the current drive to the new drive (using XXclone).
This seems like the better option, except I will have to buy the cable
too, but it will get used again, so I'll buy it.
Will this work? In other words, once I plug in the cloned drive (new
bigger one), will it boot right up? Will I have to re-activate XP?
-OR-
Is it possible to boot the laptop from my XP home CD, then use the USB
ports to clone it back? I kind of doubt that????
I will also need to determine if the drive is IDE or SATA? How do I
know that?
There are tow rows of 21 pins (or maybe 20, it's hard to count them),
with one center pin missing. Then there are 4 more pins separated from
the others (power I assume). I'm very familiar with Desktop drives, but
not these laptop ones.
The drive I have now, is a hitachi model hts541040g9at00
40GB, 5400 rpm ATA/ IDE.
I guess I just answered my own question, regarding the type. it's an
IDE. Now it's just a matter of getting one, and cloning it.