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    Upgrade Thinkpad hard drive

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by superpig10000, Aug 14, 2007.

  1. superpig10000

    superpig10000 Notebook Geek

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    My friend has a 30Gb hard drive that she would like to upgrade. How would she migrate the data from her old drive to here new drive? I'm not sure what her model is, probably Txx, but are all thinkpad hard drives standard 2.5" ? Thanks for any help
     
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    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    All ThinkPads use 2.5" hard drives. They are referred to as notebook hard drives. The 2.5" refers to the height of the drive in centimeters. If your friend's hard drive is beyond the 2.5", it cannot fit.
     
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    superpig10000 Notebook Geek

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    ok Thanks. How do I go about migrating data? Do I have to reinstall Windows on the new drive after migration?
     
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    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Well, is this new drive a notebook hard drive? do you have a USB enclosure or something?

    ThinkVantage has Rescue and Recovery - I believe you can burn an entire backup onto DVDs and then use those to restore. There are other programs out there that do the same thing. For example, there is a company known as Apricorn that makes EZ-Gig II, a program that enables you to copy a hard drive's contents exactly to another drive that is connected via USB. Hitachi uses this software in their Notebook Hard Drive Transfer Kits.
     
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    Saneless Notebook Evangelist

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    If it's a real problem with backing it up you can always buy a $12 external notebook drive casing, connect it, format it, and move over the 30GB worth of stuff.

    Or the other way around, put the new drive in there, load up the OS, put the old drive in a casing and move the stuff over.

    Honestly though, 30GB is kinda small, I"m sure you can just network the contents over to a friend's drive who has some free space (probably only 20 of real stuff not related to os and programs)
     
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