Ghosting a Laptop HDD

[parkie]

Was thinking of upgrading the 20GB HDD in my girlfriends Laptop to something a bit more substantial, how do I go about this? Can I do it using my PC? What power connectors will the 2.5" drive use? Will a normal IDE cable do the trick? Actually, do they use the same power connecots as a floppy drive?

hope you can help

cheers

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[parkie]

Another alternative is to pick up a 2.5" drive USB enclosure. You can get these for around £10 and then you have a spare portable 20GB drive in an enclosure for random backup purposes or whatever you'd want to use it for.

Provided the laptop is at least semi-recent, even a DOS version of Ghost should pick it up. I did the same thing when I changed my laptop's HD - just slapped the new drive in the enclosure then booted to DOS Ghost and copied the original drive to the new one. After swapping them around it worked absolutely fine.

that sounds like the answer to me, the extra storage would be useful as well, can you recommend one, what brand? I've used Ghost as long as i can remember and it'sa never let me down and I seem to remember they added usb support a few years back.

Can anyone recommend a good laptop HDD, I know plenty about PC drives but laptop I'm not so sure. What should I stay away from?

thanks everyone

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