laptop hard drive replacement

[Nigel]

I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. It's brilliant in everyway, I just wish now I'd specced it with more storage! So I now want to replace the hard drive. On my order it specs the disk drive as:

80GB (5,400 rpm) SATA Hard Drive.

I've seen this which seems a good price:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=108779

This would be compatiable with my laptop wouldn't it?

If it is is there anyway of mirroring my existing Drive onto a new drive and then just plugging it in?

Cheers.

 

[H182]

Should work as far as I'm aware. The only way to mirror it would be to put one of the drives in usb caddy, then use some mirroring software.

 

[Nigel]

I just don't want to splash out £75 if it's not going to work!

What do you recommend to mirror it with if I put both drives in my desktop pc?

 

[chriscl]

You don't necessarily need to put both drives in a desktop PC (they won't fit as standard without adapters, anyway!)

I use Acronis Workstation for this sort of thing; I've a cheap (£6) USB caddy, when I need to 'clone' a laptop, I just stick the 'new' drive in the caddy, then boot from the Acronis CD (which is all 'wizard' based) it allows simple cloning of a whole disk or partitions, with automagic re-sizing as it goes.

Once cloned, take the 'new' drive out of the caddy, swap it into the laptop, reboot, and enjoy.

 

[Adam K]

yes they will plug into a desktop machine without a problem.

sata 2.5" laptop drives use exactly the same connectors as 3.5" sata desktop drives.

 

[Dink]

the one you linked too doesn't look like it's a SATA drive

 

[H182]

Oops, good job someone mentioned SATA I never noticed that. No it wont fit then.