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I have never owned a Notebook, but I am curious... how can you upgrade a laptop's primary drive if the OS and other drivers are not available on CD, since there is no way to connect a secondary drive as a Slave to tranfer your files? So, in order to do this, you may need a 2.5" External HD Enclosure also and transfer all files, I suppose.
This is what I would do RayKCMO:
1st - Replace your primary drive with the new one.
2nd - Insert and boot from Windows CD (doesn't matter which version)
3rd - Choose a format type and format your HD + install windows
4th - After its done installing windows it will boot up with basic drivers
5th - From a different computer or if you can get your new system to get online, go to the support page of your laptop's manufacturer and downloand your drivers.
6th - Install your drivers and you are pretty much set to go.
Hope this helps
Ben: you got any deals on notebook HD around 40-60GB? How about some 512mb notebook memories?
#1, #2, use Ghost so you can preserve all your settings.
I have had great use with a product called Acronis TrueImage.... it works well with usb/firewire external devices. All I do is get 2 external enclosure, put the old drive in one the new drive in the other then use TrueImage to clone them... works every time....
Ghost or any similar imaging tool will clone the entire drive over to the new one. I usually hook the laptop drive to a spare desktop machine's IDE port (using a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter).
To the question of this hard drive... Are WD 2.5" drives as noisy and hot as their 3.5" drives? This is a good price for a notebook drive, but not if it causes the system to overheat.
Trueimage is great. I have restored four or fix times on my notebook (including an HD replacement) and it has worked every time. Price may be better too.
If you dont have an installation cd, Before you install windows on your new hard drive (pirated?), save the product key/id so that you can re-use that.
Using ghost to transfer everything from the old hard drive to the new one is fine if you work out a strategy that will work with the drive swap involved with a notebook.
If you have a notebook and DIDNT get the O/S restore and driver cds with it, then you probably have a restore partition on the current drive in the machine which will also need to be ghosted.