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From: JayB on 25 Jun 2010 10:59
that hard drive is great.
the size is fine and should work.
I dont use Casper so cant speak for what it could do,
but in theory, it should work,
provided that you copy all partitions on the hard drive in the same
order they appear,
and you set the active partition.
jay


WaIIy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My friend has an Inspiron 1501 Laptop and bought a 320 gig WD drive from
> Newegg.
>
> Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5"
> SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare
>
>
>
> I was going to do this -
>
> Buy an external enclosure - This one-
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182177
>
> 1- Install new drive into enclosure
>
> 2- Hook up enclosure
>
> 3- Use Casper to clone existing drive to new drive in enclosure
>
> 4- Swap drives
>
> Will this work ?
>
> Also, she was looking around and somebody somewhere told her to use
> a 250 gig drive instead of a 320.
>
> Note - I noticed in the specs of one usb enclosure, it supported up to
> 250 gb drive - Why the limit ?
>
From: Nate Nagel on 26 Jun 2010 13:15
I just used a "Kingwin" usb to SATA adapter rather than a full case.
$12 on sale at my local computer emporium. Newegg has the WD3200BEJT
for only a couple dollars more. That provides a mechanism that protects
the platters from head crashes when the laptop is dropped while in use.
Dunno how useful that is to your friend. I have installed two of
those using the Acronis True Image software available free on WD's web
site (only works on WD drives though) no problems either time. One disk
has one bad sector the other is perfect. Much quieter than either of
the drives they replaced, too.

nate

On 06/26/2010 12:14 PM, WaIIy wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the feedback.
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:59:28 -0400, JayB<JayB(a)audiman.net> wrote:
>
>> that hard drive is great.
>> the size is fine and should work.
>> I dont use Casper so cant speak for what it could do,
>> but in theory, it should work,
>> provided that you copy all partitions on the hard drive in the same
>> order they appear,
>> and you set the active partition.
>> jay
>>
>>
>> WaIIy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My friend has an Inspiron 1501 Laptop and bought a 320 gig WD drive from
>>> Newegg.
>>>
>>> Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5"
>>> SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was going to do this -
>>>
>>> Buy an external enclosure - This one-
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182177
>>>
>>> 1- Install new drive into enclosure
>>>
>>> 2- Hook up enclosure
>>>
>>> 3- Use Casper to clone existing drive to new drive in enclosure
>>>
>>> 4- Swap drives
>>>
>>> Will this work ?
>>>
>>> Also, she was looking around and somebody somewhere told her to use
>>> a 250 gig drive instead of a 320.
>>>
>>> Note - I noticed in the specs of one usb enclosure, it supported up to
>>> 250 gb drive - Why the limit ?
>>>
>


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