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Eastern North Dakota | Here's how you could do it:
1: Hook old and new notebook drive up to desktop machine using 2 cheap adapters.
2: Fire up desktop machine with boot disk that contains either Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image.
3: Clone old notebook drive to new notebook drive.
4: Install new notebook drive back in the laptop, fire it up and enjoy new drive with extra space.
You could do it with one notebook drive adapter but it would require that an "image" of the old drive be made
and saved on the host computer's hard drive. The "image" could then be used to write back tothe new drive.
Problem is that, if I recall correctly, the old version of Ghost I have is not able to save an image to a drive
formatted with NTFS... as most XP systems are NTFS. I usually just us a spare 3.5" hard drive as a temporary
container of the cloned notebook drive and clone that back to the new drive but not many people have spare
hard drives laying around. I can't recall if Acronis suffers the same problem... most likely not.
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