What's the easiest way to upgrade a single laptop hard drive?

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Published on 2010-06-15T08:43:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 8:53 UTC
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My HD is coming near the end of it's life and I wondered if producing an image of the original was all that was required? What's the best software to use for this and how can I accomplish it - can I use my other laptop for the image file or do I need to buy an external HD to accomplish the clone?

Does having several partitions of both FAT32 and NTFS with partition magic installed affect things at all?

Is it just a matter of making the image, swapping in the new HD and copying the image to that?

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