[Blackpool] A little help in finding a good laptop

[B McLellan]

The quickest way to do this is probably to drop both the laptop drives into
a desktop unit. They'll both be standard sata connections so there should
be no problem with this and it will give the fastest transfer rate.
If you have a few more pennies to spare you could also grab something like
this:
http://www.quietpc.com/products/harddrivesolutions/zm-ve200
A sata to USB enclosure. This one is pretty funky as it you can fill your
drive .iso and it will emulate a CD drive and boot them!
You can then use a clonezilla live CD to boot from and clone the drive the
same way you would with Ghost,

Rob


On 7 June 2012 15:11, Mark Watson <mr_m_watson at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for everyone getting back to me with things to consider when
> finding my next laptop.
>
> I will now look for specific models that are now available and post links
> where possible, to see if they meet most or all of the things that have
> been spoken about.
> So thanks on all that.
>
>
> One other thing...
>
> I will probably buy a second internal drive, equal or bigger than the
> original to swap out of the laptop.  I thought what I would like to do is,
> clone the original windows 7 OS onto the second drive, partition it for
> Mint and then install Mint.  This way if I have any problems, I still have
> my original Windows 7 OS backed up.
>
> Though unsure how to go about this with laptop drives....  I have used
> Ghost on a standard PC to back up my windows XP system, so basically I can
> clone it across to new drives very easily.  Just laptops don't have floppy
> drives, and I don't know how to link it all up for the laptop.  So any
> ideas how to go about this task would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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