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April 26th, 2004 18:00

Hard drive replacement

Have a Dell laptop 5000e with WinMe OS. Upgraded the OS to XP Home only to find out I have very little disk space left on the 5GB hard drive. Ordered a new 40GB Hard Drive from Dell which should be here in a couple of days. Is there a easy way to transfer the old data and os to the new drive or do I have to start from scratch?

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    Posted April 26th, 2004 21:00

    If you purchase a copy of DriveImage or Ghost, and a desktop adapter for the notebook drive, or have an external USB2 or firewire hard drive, you can make an image to it, and then restore the image to the new drive.

     

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    Posted April 27th, 2004 03:00

    have you changed the file format when you upgraded from winme to winxp home? i.e. fat to ntfs? if you haven't, you just need to purchase en external enclosure and slot in your 5gb hard drive and you can transfer data to your new hdd.

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    Posted April 27th, 2004 05:00

    If you are going to transfer your data by ghost or others, have a look at my former thread

    http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_harddrive&message.id=31891

    There probably will be some problems when connecting your notebook HDD to a desktop.

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