How to Clone HD image onto multiple USBs?

[ZloiWon]

I have Win 7 and wish to replace the hard drive in my HP laptop (my first time trying this). I downloaded Aomei Backerupper to make an image of my current HD. Plan was to use a USB drive for the image, but I have about 150 GB on the current HD. Question is, can I use multiple USB drives to create the image clone (the way new computers used to be sold with multi-disk sets of the OS)? If not, how do people make images of large HDs on removable media?

 

[wpgwpg]

I think you'd be far better just buying an external hard drive. I've seen major brand name 1 TB ones for $60. They're much much faster and more reliable too. You could always buy a 240 GB USB flash drive, but it'll cost you about the same amount and be a greatly inferior approach. I hate to think about how long it would take to write all that data to a flash drive - I'd think it could be a couple of days. Writing it to an external hard drive wouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

Good luck.

 

[smorizio]

some people use a usb to sata cable. plug the new drive in and then clone the software to the new drive. there also those cheap ext drive bays that you can plug the new drive in once and set the drive up.

 

[ZloiWon]

some people use a usb to sata cable. plug the new drive in and then clone the software to the new drive. there also those cheap ext drive bays that you can plug the new drive in once and set the drive up.

I've thought about this as well as the external drive soln. I've got an old external HD but it doesn't have enough room. I don't really need another one though. Transferring the clone directly to the new drive makes the most sense, if feasible and cheap enough. One other idea has occurred to me: I have a notebook computer with plenty of storage on the HD. Was wondering if it's possible to partition the drive and transfer the clone image to that partition and use it, but am not sure about 1) whether the clone software insists on overwriting everything on the new disk, and 2) how to boot the laptop from the notebook. Can you set the BIOS preference to be a partition on another computer?