Posted by jdemaris on December 10, 2010 at 07:08:49 from (67.142.130.49):
Just had our first hard-drive failure in my wire's Toshiba laptop.
I've replaced or added countless HDs in desk-tops, but never in a laptop until now.
My main question is this. Has anyone here used a freeware cloning program and had it work well?
I'm sure I can get my wife's laptop to boot up a few more times if I leave it outside and let it get cold. So, if I get it to boot up - I want to install a program on it - and have it clone itself - and hopefully burn to a CD or DVD. Stick in a new HD, and then resinstall everything.
I don't want to buy any special adapters to hook the laptop HD to a Deskttop IDE or SATA cable. I know that's what many computer shops do, but I don't want to buy the adapters.
I don't want to pay $60 for Norton Ghost. There are many free-ware programs around - but hate to install one unless I hear it actually worked for somebody.
I'm not going to search any computer-geek forums because - mainly - I'm looking for simpler "non-geek" answers.
The laptop has a Vista OS, and we really want to keep it and NOT install Windows 7. Too many programs that run under Vista will not run under 7. In fact, "compatibilty mode" has been eliminated in Windows Home premium.
If anybody's used a freeware cloning program that has worked well - please post. Or if you know another way to do this, without spending money on adapters - please advise. I already made a recovery disk, but that won't include all the extra programs we're trying to save.
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