I would want a second opinion on how should I act to swap my netbook HDD for a bigger and faster one. What's the easiest safe way of doing this operation?
I would like if it's possible to keep the recover partition too, just if it's possible.
Posted Jul 4, 2014, 11:26 PM UTC
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Just use a usb adpater to plug the new hard drive in your netbook and then clone the entire netbook drive onto the new harddrive . Then swap the drives , boot up your computer and enjoy
There's a variety of freeware migration software, take a look at those.
Yeah, I was looking at some of those. And really got a little scared and frustrated. Can't really tell whitch one is better than others... from my experience, open source products based on GNU/Linux usually work well, so I was pondering using clonezilla. But being a Windows 8, and having this recover partition in the middle... <shivers>
I'm really hoping some brother that walked that path before to tell me "well, this is what I used, and you have to be carefull with this, this and this". You know, some hints, not a walkthrough...
I swapped out the hdd on my lenovo g505 for a ssd (after getting a ssd on my desktop, I can't stand the hdd life). Migrating kept the 1000 MB recovery partition.
For what it's worth, you could just not care and format and migrate again if something goes wrong. (if you choose to keep the hdd as is).
I used samsungs migration software, but I don't know whether that works if you're not migrating to one of their drives.