SMART Failure, what to do now.

[Tom]

Been given a HP laptop with this old hat windows stuff on it. (to repair)

the drive is on its way out so im replacing it.

How do i mirror the disk to the new drive? any tips on software?

i have a usb enclosure to connect the drive to the machine but i dont have a copy of xp or backup discs.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Use something like Norton Ghost and take an image of the drive and restore that image to the new hard drive.

 

[MickM]

Personally Use Acronis

 

[dk]

mount it and the new drive in a pc and copy the contents across?

 

[Adams_16v]

you can do hdd to disc hdd ghost!

 

[Rasclart]

Whip it out and connect it and a new drive to a PC. Make a Ghost or Acronis Boot disk and do a HDD to HDD copy. May take a long time and appear to hang but should copy. Sometimes putting the fubarred HDD in the freezer (IN A BAG AND SEALED WELL) will give it enough life to ghost across

 

[Tom]

i decided to put osx on it instead.