Upgrading Hard Disk but still maintaining old hard disk

[LunarWolf]

My friend want to upgrade his laptop's hard disk.

How can he make a complete and exact backup of his old hard disk and transfer it to his new hard disk ?

PS he don't have an external hard disk

I am thinking of asking he to use macrium reflect. Will that work?

[Granny]

Your first requirement is a place to store the image, prior to restoring it to the new drive.

How large is the existing drive?

Have you made an image with Macrium to see what the storage requirement would be?

You cannot connect two hard drives to a laptop via IDE, in general (a few exceptions do exist).

You can use one IDE drive and one external USB drive - or you can convert laptop drives to desktop IDE and power interfaces and install them into a desktop, and make an image to that, which is wayyyy too much work...

I would suggest you borrow an external drive or create the image on dvd, then remove the existing drive, install the new one in its place, boot from a boot disk for whichever product you made the image with, and restore the image to the new drive.

Usual precautions apply!!

Google on 'replace laptop hard drive' there's lots of good info out there.