in notebook hard drive upgrade - easy
Written by Ingo in Computer , tags: hard disk , notebook
Yesterday I replaced the 60GB hard drive of my good old Toshiba notebook with a larger one. The old one was for some time already filled to the brim, so I have often weed out or move files to external USB hard drives needed. In addition, there was our son, Tim, of the hard-won free 5GB immediately wanted to fill it again with his latest computer game ...
Now, a new, poured hard drive costs really not the world, but I did not feel like having to set up the system from scratch and address books, e-mails and dozens of programs to reinstall (after all, a notebook has only one hard disk, the Desktop one can always as the new second, install non-system disk).
The solution was extremely simple with Acronis True Image can clone the old hard drive (where the partitions can be stretched flexibility of the old to the new disk). So I had to buy only one new plate (250GB, EIDE, for about 80 €), plus a matching external USB enclosure. The new record was temporarily in the new housing (3 min installation), then the old disk to the new clone (about 1 hour where you do not stick to it, had to operate, incidentally, was quite easy thanks to assistants, only default and leave " continue "), the old board out (you only had one screw on the notebook, to remove the cover of the hard drive and extract the hard drive only, inserted new record, with no jumper switch or the like), and ... ...
.... it went !!!!! Without anything, no error, no reconfiguration, no newly detected hardware, nothing, just like that! 
The old record is found naturally in the external USB enclosure.
Had I known that it is so easy, I would have made this move long ago. But now consider only times that I pack up everything on the laptop, maybe a part of the film library, as many GB do not want to even remain unused.
[...] (This is a translation of the article in my German blog) [...]
The replacement of hard drives to a laptop or PC is certainly not complicated. The problem is sometimes, to bring the system back with all the programs and settings to work. to clone all the installations and data from disk A to disk B, I have always used the software 'Drive Snapshot'. The good thing is that you can create a bootable CD and boot directly from CD Drive Snapshot.
[...] Landed True Image, which runs as a free 15-day version. After upgrading the testimony of a user (see hard drive in notebook - easy | Ingo Raven blog) is a breeze. I just have an external case for the new hard drive [...]