Please help with HDD Replacement!

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There are almost too many ways of doing this to even discuss, but my
recommendation would be to use "Drive Image" to create an "Image file"
of the hard drive either on the same computer (must be in a different
partition, however) or on another computer over the network, or on a
CD-R media (be sure to tell Drive Image to breakup the image file into
CD-R size pieces).

Ultimately, you need to get those onto CD-R, then you can restore them
to the new hard drive.

As I said, there are a LOT of other ways to do this.


Richard Wright wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a Sony Vaio PCG-F430 laptop and I want to replace the oem 12gb hdd
> with a universal 80gb hdd. What steps do I need to take to copy the
> contents from the old drive to the new drive?
>
> I have a home network of 2 desktops and this laptop. Is it possible to copy
> the drive image from the laptop's old drive to one of my desktop's drives
> then replace the old drive with the new drive and copy the image back to the
> new drive?
>
> What other options/ways are there to accomplish the above mentioned task?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rick Wright
>
>

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"genius" <e0126402@student.tuwien.ac-dot-at.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message news:4145ef6e$1_1@alt.athenanews.com...
> My Girlfriend uses the Program Norton Ghost (Symantec) to make Backups
> of old Harddisks.
> This Program writes directly to other drives in a Network , or burns
> to CD Rom/DVD.
>
> It it self Bootable and can restore your old system to a blank new
> Harddrive.
> Using that Program I have made a Backup of my Harddisk as it was
> preinsstalled when I bought it. That took 4 CDs.
>
> ==============

Ok ok, you have told us this 6 times, I might be slow, but I get the
picture...... :-)


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