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Originally Posted by pmjd  If your upto a bit of diy you could get a HDD disk caddy from ebay for about £5-£10, pop your new drive in it and clone the contents of your current drive onto it. Once done take out the old drive and replace with the new one. I'm a bit out of touch with what programs are best to do this on PCs these days but can have a look if you want. |
I rather suspect that you need to (a) know what you're doing and (b) have the right disk imaging software to create a clone in this way.
You might also find that your original disk has a hidden partition that you can't see (for instance with recovery information) - you'd have to make sure you copied this across to the new disk too.
There's also the possibility that the first time you plug your new disk in and switch on, it doesn't work.
If there are files that you can store offline (ie if you don't need to carry all the data in your laptop), the approach of having external storage is much simpler as you can just plug it in and you're not touching the operating system or software.