Upgrading Notebook Hard Drive Questions/Issues

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I would like to upgrade my Toshiba Satellite 40gb hard drive to an 80gb
drive, I don't want to re-install Win XP from the recovery disk from Toshiba,
and would like to duplicate the exact image from one drive to the other.
What issues will I have to face? Notes: I have an external 120gb hard drive
with a backup program that says it will duplicate the image of the 40gb
drive. Can I duplicate the 40gb drive onto the 80gb drive then replace the
40gb drive with the 80gb drive in the notebook and have it work as if I had
an 80gb hard drive all along?
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JoeH

 

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You can create an image using sysprep from microsoft or ghostpro from norton.
There are some image creators freebies around too. Just look on google.

"JoeH" wrote:

> I would like to upgrade my Toshiba Satellite 40gb hard drive to an 80gb
> drive, I don't want to re-install Win XP from the recovery disk from Toshiba,
> and would like to duplicate the exact image from one drive to the other.
> What issues will I have to face? Notes: I have an external 120gb hard drive
> with a backup program that says it will duplicate the image of the 40gb
> drive. Can I duplicate the 40gb drive onto the 80gb drive then replace the
> 40gb drive with the 80gb drive in the notebook and have it work as if I had
> an 80gb hard drive all along?
> --
> JoeH