Re: upgrade a laptop hard drive

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:40:26 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:52:56 -0700, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm considering installation of a larger hard drive in my laptop. Can
someone describe the options for cloning a couple of partitions from my
existing drive? I realize one option would be to copy to an external USB
drive. I assume another one would be to put the old drive in an external
enclosure and copy it in. I'm assuming there is not way to connect both
drives to internal connections - correct? or not - that would certainly be
faster than USB copies.

I've always used an IDE desktop<>IDE Laptop adapter. They can be had for
less than ten bucks and let you connect a laptop drive to an IDE port
of your desktop.

If you're putting linux on the laptop, use fdisk or cfdisk to partition
it; mkfs to format it. You could use dd to clone but that is rather
dangerous as it takes no head of bad blocks. tar or cp are better
choices.

Keep in mind that a usb2 external case will be so much faster than the
laptop drive that the performance hit won't make any difference. You're
lucky if a laptop drive can do 5MB/s; usb2 is good for at least 25MB/s.

What I'd like to do is to clone the drive already in the laptop - I not
overly concerned with how to transfer the data, what I'm looking for are
suggestions for the physical attachment. I was wondering if there might be
a laptop Y cable so I could plug in both drives at once to do the
transfers.

.

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