Re: Upgrading I8600
- From: Jay B <jayB@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:57:56 -0400
the term was referring to a generic partition copy program, that must be bootable from any CD. i assumed you already had one, there are many of them out there, pros and cons about each. i certainly wouldnt pay for one, since the free ones work as good as the paid ones.
free ones: seagate tools, maxtor tools, bootitng, ... to name a few.
paid ones: ghost, partition magic, ERD, acronis true image, ...
i only use external enclosures that supply power.
also, as tom said, i would also put the new drive in the external enclosure, but i thought you had a good reason for reversing it... no big deal either way, but just in case you have really bad luck: either static hands, or you never worked with hardware before, or never inserted a drive in an external enclosure, or they sent you a bad one, .... since you're pulling out your existing working drive that you want to clone, and you somehow manage to fu*k up you drive before you get a chance to copy it, then that would really su*k.
Robert McMillan wrote:
Jay, thanks for that help, just one question though. Your reference to "partition copy cd" is that a part of another program, or is it something i can freely download? I am willing to buy software if i need to..
Thanks again
Robert
"Jay B" <jayB@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:R95ng.1296$uZ5.654@xxxxxxxxxxxobviously dell is not going to cover the warranty on the new drive unless you got it from them. the old drive will still be covered for the remainder of the laptop's warranty.
for logistics, i would put the old 2.5 drive in an external enclosure connected thru usb, boot off partition copy cd, and copy from the external enclosure to the new internal drive, remove the external drive before rebooting and you're done.
Robert McMillan wrote:Just to follow up on my own thread. I found a story on Toms Hardware that happens to compare the performance of both the drives in question, Fujitsu MHU2100AT and Hitachi 7K100.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/11/fast_and_furious/page6.html
and it appears that there is a significant performance increase to warrant the upgrade.
But this brings another question. What are the warranty implications on my swapping the harddrives over? am i voiding any part of the warranty?
Once again thanks for any help you can give.
Robert
"Robert McMillan" <rmcmillan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:449ccd5a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxHi,
I am considering upgrading the hard drive on my laptop from an 100Gb Fujitsu MHU2100AT (4200rpm) to a 100Gb Hitachi 7K100 (7200rpm) drive.
The first question is am i likely to see the big performance increase i am expecting with startup times, games etc. The rest of the specs are as follows: the cpu is a 2Ghz centrino and i have 1.25Gb ram and 128Mb radeon 9600 video so i think it could be the only thing slowing down the system.
Secondly how do i go about swapping the drives. I would like to transfer the current partitions (diagnostics, restore and OS) onto the new drive, so i thought i could buy an external 2.5" case to go with, which i would later use with the old harddrive. Then i realised i cannot run a 7200rpm drive in it. So using something like acronis trueimage can i put the new blank drive into the laptop, the current drive into the external case and copy it across usb, or will i need to buy an 3.5" to 2.5" adapter and plug the drives into a desktop pc and image through it?
Thanks for any advice.
Robert
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