Laptop with XP Pro

[Dan (Still going in circles)]

I have an HP n5150 laptop which is XP compatible. Actually, I already
have it loaded on the laptop. I want to upgrade the harddrive, and I
want to make a complete copy of the old drive to the new drive. As
far as I know, laptops do not have extra cable connections as the
PC's.
Can anyone suggest what I can do to accomplish this minor task? I
really don't want to have to reinstall all the software programs
again.


Dan (Still going in circles)

[Jim Macklin]

You can get cable adapters and install the old and new drive
as secondary master and slave in a desktop and do the disk
image and then install the new drive back into the laptop.

The laptop hard drives use a different data and power
connector.


"Dan (Still going in circles)" > wrote in
message ...
| I have an HP n5150 laptop which is XP compatible.
Actually, I already
| have it loaded on the laptop. I want to upgrade the
harddrive, and I
| want to make a complete copy of the old drive to the new
drive. As
| far as I know, laptops do not have extra cable connections
as the
| PC's.
| Can anyone suggest what I can do to accomplish this minor
task? I
| really don't want to have to reinstall all the software
programs
| again.
|
|
| Dan (Still going in circles)

[Jeff W.]

Why don't you just Ghost the drive? The new version of Ghost supports
external CD-RW's and hard drives on bootup.

JWeinberg

"Dan (Still going in circles)" > wrote in message
...
> I have an HP n5150 laptop which is XP compatible. Actually, I already
> have it loaded on the laptop. I want to upgrade the harddrive, and I
> want to make a complete copy of the old drive to the new drive. As
> far as I know, laptops do not have extra cable connections as the
> PC's.
> Can anyone suggest what I can do to accomplish this minor task? I
> really don't want to have to reinstall all the software programs
> again.
>
>
> Dan (Still going in circles)

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Dan (Still going in circles)" > wrote in message
...
> I have an HP n5150 laptop which is XP compatible. Actually, I
already
> have it loaded on the laptop. I want to upgrade the harddrive,
and I
> want to make a complete copy of the old drive to the new drive.
As
> far as I know, laptops do not have extra cable connections as the
> PC's.
> Can anyone suggest what I can do to accomplish this minor task? I
> really don't want to have to reinstall all the software programs
> again.
>
>
> Dan (Still going in circles)

They sell a PC Card device for copying hard drives on laptops. It
has the proper connection on the drive end for attaching the hard
drive data and power cable.

--
Earl F. Parrish

[Dan (Still going in circles)]

Thanks all, I really appreciate the input. I think I will try the
"Ghosting" first, if it doesn't work, then I will get the card or
cable adapters.

Dan (Still going in circles)

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:35:56 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"
> wrote:

>
>"Dan (Still going in circles)" > wrote in message
...
>> I have an HP n5150 laptop which is XP compatible. Actually, I
>already
>> have it loaded on the laptop. I want to upgrade the harddrive,
>and I
>> want to make a complete copy of the old drive to the new drive.
>As
>> far as I know, laptops do not have extra cable connections as the
>> PC's.
>> Can anyone suggest what I can do to accomplish this minor task? I
>> really don't want to have to reinstall all the software programs
>> again.
>>
>>
>> Dan (Still going in circles)
>
>They sell a PC Card device for copying hard drives on laptops. It
>has the proper connection on the drive end for attaching the hard
>drive data and power cable.