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    Upgrading new Hard Drive Question for Laptops

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Forte, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. Forte

    Forte NBR's Supreme Angel

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    So if I get a higher capacity hard drive, I stick it in the enclosure, plug into comp, then clone the drive. How do I actually expand the C: drive partition so that it is able to take advantage of the extra space? Does the hard drive cloner automatically expand that particular partition or what?
     
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    Acronis does allow you to expand right then and there. I'm not sure about other tools, but I'm going to guess that most of them do this too.
     
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    If you want something free, you could probably do this with a gparted live CD or USB image. Growing the filesystem afterwards, I mean. You'd still need a cloner program also.
     
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    Is it true that I'd have to reinstall mediadirect if I get a new drive?

    I don't get it. When I clone a drive, shouldnt all partitions remain intact? Ive been reading certain places where mediadirect gets screwed up with an upgrade to a new hard drive.
     
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