Swapping laptop drives with complete OS?

[tkroll]

Hello,

Just want to check if this works before I destroy my laptop.

I have a Sony Vaio TX-series laptop. Is it possible to pull out the old drive, clone it onto a new drive, and just stick it back in? Will this work?

Thanks,
Ty

 

[ring.of.steel]

If you get some kind of drive cloning software then yes.

 

[Dangman]

Which drive will you be sticking back in? the new or the old?

Anyway, it should be fine for either cases. Did the same thing with my Toshiba laptop. Cloned my 60GB drive to a new 120GB drive with Acronis True Image, took out the 60GB, slapped in the 120GB and it worked fine!

 

[ring.of.steel]

Copy and pasting wont work for this bear in mind

 

[Dangman]

We posted at the same time.

LOL!

 

[ring.of.steel]

lol, its kinda irrating when that happens, it looks like your just repeating someone else

 

[QKSILVR73]

I highly recommend the Apricorn EZ upgrade kit

http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=reg&id=1023

also available at the egg.

Plus you can stick your old HD in it and use it as storage.

 

[xenotype]

Wow. Pretty neat. Thanks for that link, I could use something like that. I was wondering how to go about upgrading my laptop's hd, 110 gigs isnt cutting it anymore, with all these new games coming out and all.

Now if I had the dough for one of those new high capacity notebook drives, dont they make a 500 gig 2.5 inch? I could have sworn I saw one....

 

[jterp7]

that ones coming out in march sometime..i wouldn't expect it to be cheap either..probably 300+

 

[ambientZ]

The 500G 2.5" is taller than most laptop harddrives, so it might not fit.... Something to be aware of if you decide to go for it.

 

[jterp7]

the hitachi won't fit as it is 12.5mm, but this samsung will
http://www.techspot.com/news/28471-samsung-announces-500gb-laptop-drive.html