On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:16:57 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
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I will eventually want to clone my old HD to the new BIGGER HD in the
new laptop. but I'm still puzzled how to do it. On a desktop I can plug
in a second HD to clone to, but that cant be done on a laptop. All I can
think is to clone the old 40g drive to a 32g flash drive (the drive is
not filled), then boot from a CD and clone the flash drive to the 80g
HD. I'm not sure if that will work????

Can you plug both laptop hdd's into the desktop and then use something
like Macrium to clone one to the other?

Dont I need some special connectors to plug them small drives into a
desktop computer? I know the power plugs are different, but I'm not sure
about the data plugs? If I have to, I suppose I'll have to buy some
adaptors or something. I'd imagine ebay has some sort of adaptors?

I have never been able to figure out Macrium, which seems very
complicated and bloated, but I have Partition Magic, which works fine
for cloning, Windows 95 thru XP. (I dont know if it works on Vista thru
Windows 10, since I have no intention to use those operating systems). I
have cloned several desktop drives for Win98, Win2000, and XP, using
Partition Magic.

After I find some way to plug them in to a desktop comp, I suppose I'd
have to boot up using drive C:, then plug one laptop drive into the
second IDE plug, and unplug the CD/DVD drive for my 3rd plug... Right?