changing laptop drive?

[Cyber-Mav]

hi all, iv got a seagate momentus 4200rpm 2mb cache 40 gig drive in my lappy. the drive is slow so i was thinking about upgrading it to a faster unit.

i have seen the 60gb 5400rpm 8mb cache western digital scorpio drive and i am planning on getting this drive as a replacement. thing is can i swap the drives over without having to reinstall everything?

usually on a desktop pc i can ghost all the data over to the newer drive but the lappy only has support for a single hard drive at once.

im planning on using the existing drive in the lappy as an external usb storage device so i will also be getting a caddy for the old drive when i place the order for the new drive.

any ideas if its possible to image all the data over from the old 40 gig drive to the new drive by placing the new drive in the usb2 caddy? or does ghosting not work over usb devices?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

hmm, the current drive im my lappy is a 40gig segate momemntus 4200rpm drive 2meg cache.

would there be any speed difference going to a 5400rpm western digital 60gig 8mb cache drive?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

power and heat is not a problem. just after more performance. also im after an external usb hard drive which is self powered of the usb port so the old drive out the lappy would be perfect for that.

i can get a western digital scorpio 60 gig 5400rpm 8mb cache drive for 50qud inc vat so was wondering if it would be much faster than my current seagate momentus 4200rpm 2mb cache drive?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

hmm, i guess i will go ahead and buy the drive and the caddy.
the 40gig i take out of the laptop shoudl be fine for external use and its only going to be used to transfer data from desktop pcs to other desktops so no need to worry about the power output of laptop usb sockets. and during the data transfer from the lappy i can make it use 2 usb ports for the additional power.