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cloning laptop drive
Dear LJ Genie,
I got given an older laptop by a friend. I've got it rrunning, but the HzD is painfully small. I've got a larger drive I could put in it, but since I don't have a restore CD (I *do* have the Windows XP CD & insytall code for it though) I neded to find a way to "clone" the old drive onto the larger one.
On a desktop, I'd just h0ook up both drives and use my old copy of Drive Copy.
But on the laptop, I can't do that because the only way to attach a second drive is via an external USB drive enclosure. And Droive Copy 4 doesn't support USB drives.
Any suggestions?
I also have Drive Image 6 & 7, and Partition Magic (don't recall the version) if those would help.
I'm hoping to avoid buying more software.
I got given an older laptop by a friend. I've got it rrunning, but the HzD is painfully small. I've got a larger drive I could put in it, but since I don't have a restore CD (I *do* have the Windows XP CD & insytall code for it though) I neded to find a way to "clone" the old drive onto the larger one.
On a desktop, I'd just h0ook up both drives and use my old copy of Drive Copy.
But on the laptop, I can't do that because the only way to attach a second drive is via an external USB drive enclosure. And Droive Copy 4 doesn't support USB drives.
Any suggestions?
I also have Drive Image 6 & 7, and Partition Magic (don't recall the version) if those would help.
I'm hoping to avoid buying more software.