Posted: 6/24/2012 10:33:42 AM EDT
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I am running out of space on my laptop hard-drive. I have a larger HD that I want to swap out to. I currently have the new HD in a USB enclosure. My laptop is running Windows 7 pro. How do I make a clone that will copy everything on my old HD to my new one? I want to copy my OS and all the other files so that my new HD can be installed in my laptop and be bootable and have all my programs and files. I sincerely appreciate the help!! |
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I've used this before with good results: clonezilla
Time Machine on a Mac is the easiest way to go. 
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I've used clonezilla before also, worked and is freeware. Only problem with a laptop is inability to connect both drives simultaneously. Probably need to appropriate a desktop machine of some sort to boot from the clonezilla disk with both hard drives connected. |
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I've used clonezilla before also, worked and is freeware. Only problem with a laptop is inability to connect both drives simultaneously. Probably need to appropriate a desktop machine of some sort to boot from the clonezilla disk with both hard drives connected. He said the new drive is in an enclosure. Should be able to image the external one from the lapto then swap them out. From there either partition the extra space as a storage drive or expand the partition to use all the space on the new drive. |
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I've used clonezilla before also, worked and is freeware. Only problem with a laptop is inability to connect both drives simultaneously. Probably need to appropriate a desktop machine of some sort to boot from the clonezilla disk with both hard drives connected. He said the new drive is in an enclosure. Should be able to image the external one from the lapto then swap them out. From there either partition the extra space as a storage drive or expand the partition to use all the space on the new drive. Clonezilla will image to the enclosure and there's an option to extend the partition to the empty space. |
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I appreciate the help! Thanks!! I got it done...so far, so good.  I upgraded from a Seagate 350 gig to a Seagate 750 gig drive. Come to find out, Seagate has a program called DiscWizard that does all the heavy lifting....but it only works to clone onto a Seagate drive. All I had to do was plug the new HD into a USB port, fire up the software....and wait. DiscWizard did all the rest automaticaly. Made the new HD a duplicate of my old HD. I swapped them out, (my Dell EF6400 XFR has a bay on the side that allows easy HD swaps), fired up my laptop....and it was done. I just gained 491 GB on my laptop. I'm jacked! |
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I've used clonezilla before also, worked and is freeware. Only problem with a laptop is inability to connect both drives simultaneously. Probably need to appropriate a desktop machine of some sort to boot from the clonezilla disk with both hard drives connected. He said the new drive is in an enclosure. Should be able to image the external one from the lapto then swap them out. From there either partition the extra space as a storage drive or expand the partition to use all the space on the new drive. Sorry I skimmed over the enclosure part apparently  Should be no problem then.
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