[ltp] How to replace HD Was: Replace HD; T41p

[Steve Harris]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:03:02 +1000, David Sudjiman wrote:
> Thanks to everybody who had put efforts to answer my question.
> 
> So, now I know that _the_expensive_ IBM notebook HD is acctually the same
> quality with another HD. I just had that info from the computer store too.
> What a surprise.
> 
> Now, the question is a bit different. Just say that I have my 7200 RPM 80
> GB HD in hand. What should I do in order of preference to do replace my
> old HD?

What I did was buy a USB enclosure (so I could use the old disk as
a backup drive afterwards), put the new disk in the enclosure, boot,
format and copy stuff across and then swap the disks.

If I hadn't wated an external disk anayway, and not wanted to take down any
of my desktop machines, probably would have done what another poster said
and used a 3.5->2.5 adapter cable and a desktop machine.

- Steve