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Stuarty
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Loc: Strathclyde
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Hi All,
I currently am looking to upgrade a friends laptop with a new hard disk drive and memory as it's pretty slow. The laptop is a Acer Aspire 1352XC with pre installed Win XP. The hard disk is 20Gb but it's been partitioned into two 10Gb with one drive having the data for the OEM restore disk to reset back to manufacturers settings.
My question is that is it possible to copy the data or the drive image to a new larger hard disk drive as this is an OEM installation and doesn't come with a Win XP disk, just the MNF restore disk? Putting it simple... how are you able to upgrade to a larger HDD with OEM disks
Stuarty
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BurrWalnut
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Loc: London, England
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1. If you don’t have a mechanism for plugging in an external 2.5” drive, buy something like this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IDE-SATA-to-USB-2-...1QQcmdZViewItem
2. XXClone is small, free and can clone a hard disk to an external USB disk or to an internal disk. Only the professional version will do cumulative backups but this is perfect if an exact clone of the drive is needed. Get it here http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm Click ‘Download’ in the left pane and select the freeware package version. It is intended for single installations (not multiple boots) that use BOOT.INI.
Here are a few tips on running the program:
It’s best to close down any other running programs before starting. Make sure you select the correct Target Volume. Before clicking Start to do the cloning process, go to the Cool Tools Tab > Make Bootable and tick/run all three ‘options’ (Write MBR, Write Boot Sector and Write BOOT.INI). There is a ‘Duplicate Volume ID‘ option, which may be required by some AV programs that check for changes.
3. When you insert and boot the cloned disk, XXClone starts up and displays a Congratulations message, indicating that the cloning was successful.
4. You still have the original drive with its recovery partition intact.
When you have finished, it has cost less than £10 for the cable, about £50? for the HDD and about 1 hours work.
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Stuarty
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Loc: Strathclyde
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Thanks BurrWalnut for your excellent and promt reply....just what i was looking for. Will give an update on my proress once i get the equipment.
Much appreciated
Stuarty 
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Vista Ultimate x32 | E6750 1333FSB INTEL CORE DUO CPU | 1GB DDRII 800Mhz Mem | 560GB SATA2 HDD | FIREFOX | Blueyonder 10 Mb Broadband | Sams Web Site
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