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    Easiest (Best) way to upgrade HDD on T61

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ricksouth, Jul 22, 2008.

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    ricksouth Newbie

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    I have a new 320GB Samsung SATA drive to upgrade into a T61. What is the easiest procedure to upgrade to the new drive safely? I have Norton Ghost.
     
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    ricksouth Newbie

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    I have a clean install of XP Pro on the T61.
     
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    rec630 Notebook Geek

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    I haven't done this using Ghost, but it's a snap with Acronis TrueImage so I assume the same features are there as well as in Ghost (or other disk utility tools). I booted from CD, did a full volume backup to an external HDD. Swapped the new drive in and restored to it from the external drive image.
     
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