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    How to clone a new drive for replacement???

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by votoms888, Aug 18, 2007.

  1. votoms888

    votoms888 Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    I am already running low on my MBP. I got it with the 160gb drive.

    OS X: 60GB+/-
    Vista: 100GB+/-

    I want to upgrade to a 250gb drive. How do I clone the drive so I don't have to worry about reinstalling my apps and relocating my files?

    Thanks
     
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    Spider_3000 Notebook Consultant

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    A good imaging software is called Norton Ghost. You boot it up from a CD and then you can make a ghost image of a partition or drive. Everything on that the drive/partition is copied, so you don't have to worry about Re-installing OSes and drivers. However the ghost image needs to be saved on a FAT32 drive, so I'd recommend you partition the 250 GB drive into 60/100/and then the rest into FAT32. Afterwards you can add the partition to the other.
     
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    I don't quite understand? Sorry, every other time I have just re-installed my OS's and other stuff. I wanna avoid that this time.

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    votoms888, Aug 20, 2007
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    There are cloning programs out there which make an exact copy of your harddrive or partition. However they are smaller as they are compressed. You have to burn any 1 of those programs to a CD and boot from it.
    The program I enjoy is called Norton Ghost. I think you have to pay for it, but we all know other ways don't we? The only limitation of Norton Ghost is that you can only write onto a FAT32 partition/harddrive.
    If you want to go for a free solution, check out this wikipedia entry and use the bottom links for help.
     
    Spider_3000, Aug 20, 2007
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