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New HD for laptop

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Erasmus354

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Ok my HD for my laptop has been making some weird noises lately, usually when I pick it up. It will sometimes start making this noise that sounds like an out of balance fan or something, and the system will hang or operate very slowly. So I called Dell and they sent me a new HD which has just arrived here today.


Ok now I have a few questions. I would like to simply have all the data on my current HD on the new one. A few people I have talked to have pointed out a few problems.

1) They said that my old HD may have corrupted data on it due to the noises.

2) Umm thats all they told me...worthless friends.


So basically, how would I check and make sure the data is not corrupted. I already downloaded a trial version of "BackUp myPC 5" or something from download.com, and put an entire backup of my laptops HD onto an external. Does anyone have experience with this program? How would I then go about putting that backup onto my new HD. If you can recommend another program (sorry I cant go get norton ghost or something, only have 5 days to make the switch and return the old one to Dell before they charge me).

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
There is a simple and stirght forward way to check your documents and such for corruption - Open them up and see if they look ok. If the drive was formatted as NTFS, it keeps a journal to prevent cached writes and some other maladies from corrupting the file, but that won't help you if corrupt data is actually written to the disk.

Programs and such are obviously much harder to diagnose corruption. I would only worry about saving documents/pictures/etc that you can't reinstall, and write off your Windows installation and all of the programs that were on it that you can reinstall from master CDs. It will most likely be faster and prevent unexplained, weird 'problems.'
 
DougLite said:
There is a simple and stirght forward way to check your documents and such for corruption - Open them up and see if they look ok. If the drive was formatted as NTFS, it keeps a journal to prevent cached writes and some other maladies from corrupting the file, but that won't help you if corrupt data is actually written to the disk.

Programs and such are obviously much harder to diagnose corruption. I would only worry about saving documents/pictures/etc that you can't reinstall, and write off your Windows installation and all of the programs that were on it that you can reinstall from master CDs. It will most likely be faster and prevent unexplained, weird 'problems.'
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I realize that is probably the best option, however I have a number of programs that I would like to keep on my computer, that I most likely wont be able to get back, at least until next semester starts. (I am a student and I have programs like AutoCAD and MS Visual Studio that I get from the school, but they give you a special cd-key, and in the instance of VS you just download the program from the school network) I am not sure if I would be able to get those programs until I am back in class next semester and need them.

I also have some things on my computer like a third party video driver, because Dell hasn't updated their video drivers in over 2 years, and they wont play HL2. I dont remember where I got the video drivers from so getting em back would be a hassle.


Basically there are lots of things that I would like to keep, but it isn't very easy to just reinstall them, so I am looking for a way to simply port this HD over to the other.
 
In which case, pick up a notebook drive to PATA port adapter, hook it up to your desktop, and Ghost away. If the data is corrupt, you're hosed regardless.
 
why get an adapter and put the drive in the desktop when you can just ghost across the network? Less hassle with swappping drives and save some cash on an adapter that could be used to get a new HDD.
 
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