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Subject: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 02:48:42 -0600
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I have an old Lenovo t-43 laptop running XP. It has a 40gb hard drive,
which is too small for my needs. With the OS, and the programs I use,
plus some videos and music for when I am on the road, I end up with 28gb
filled, and 12gb available. It's not uncommon for me to go to a WIFI and
download 10gb of programs. videos and so on. Then I get a "drive full"
message, which means it's not entirely full, but very close.

For awhile I was carrying around a 64gb flash drive, but that thing is
always getting misplaced in the car. I decided to go to ebay and find an
80gb hard drive. I found a 160gb drive for $3 more than an 89gb, so I
bought the 160gb. 

I dont have the drive yet, but when I get it, I want to clone the
current drive to the new one, so I dont have to reinstall everything.
But how do I do this?

Laptops dont have space for a second HDD. (at least mine dont). 

I have one of those cable kits that is for hooking any 3.5" IDE or SATA
drive to a USB port. It dont have the plug for these 2.5" drives, so I
assume I will have to buy one made for these 2.5" laptop drives. 

(Do they sell adaptor kits for these laptop drives?)
(Are they labeled for these kind of drives)?

Once I buy the adaptor, I think all I have to do is run Partition Magic
8, (which I have) to clone the drive.

But once it's cloned, will it boot, or do I need to do something to make
it bootable?

But then I was wondering if it's possible to clone the drive to a 64gb
flash drive, then clone it from the flash drive to the new HDD? The only
problem there, is that this computer can not be booted from a USB drive,
so I will probably have to borrow a newer laptop to clone from the USB
to the new HDD. 

Will that even work?

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