Cloning a Laptop hard drive, How to?

[Mike31z]

I have a Acer Aspire 3680 Laptop that has a 80 Gig Hard drive witha Vista Operation system.
The Hard disk drive (HDD) needs to be replaced because of size issues.
I would like to keep the PQ Services partition on the new HDD because of the system eRecovery ability.

Is there a Cloning software out there that can clone from a installed original HDD to a new HDD that is connected to the Laptop by a USB HDD adapter?

Freeware is Good because this is a one time thing for me I hope!

I will consider a pay software if the price is reasonable.

Here is another Idea.

Could I remove original laptop HDD 80 GB and connect it to a Tower PC Win XP via USB adapter and connect the new 160 GB HDD to the same Tower PC by a USB Adapter and clone one USB Mass Storage Device to anothe USB Mass storage Device?

Mike in Wisconsin

[Sfcvaughn]

Uh this miiight be what you need.http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19141...buntu-live-cd/ It shows you how to do it with a Linux live-cd

[Mike31z]

Thanks for the information it a litte over my head.
I will keep looking.

Mike

[Sfcvaughn]

Originally Posted by Mike31z

Thanks for the information it a litte over my head.
I will keep looking.

Mike

Well I tried :/

[IPR512]

Try Acronis Migrate Easy, I think the demo version is good for 15 days.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...FUJm7AodhT-mfg