Dear Experts,
I know that the answer to my questions lies in several posts in this bullet board, but I must say that being "an average" engineer, I have got lost with all kind of details. So many options to choose and the user's manual is focusing on the tower PCs rather than the typical case where you have a laptop with USB cradle.
I would appreciate if someone could provide "instructions for dummies" how to the following:
1) Laptop with internal small 2.5 inch HDD 250GB running on Windows Vista
2) An USB cradle to which I can put my new and larger HDD (500GB) that will fit into the computer's HDD slot
3) Norton Ghost 15 installed on the computer
4) The internal HDD is divided into three partitions C, D and E where the OS is on the C partition, and on D and E I believe are/have been used for recovery purposes/fall back due to BIOS updates
-> I this context - how to clone a bootable HDD that can be replaced "with a screw driver" without unnecessary trics.
So may I ask what are the neeed steps to clone the content of the internal (the one I would like replace) to a new (destination) drive on the USB cradle in a way that when I assemble the new drive into the laptop and the Vista would boot up as before?
a) What options I should use to copy the drive in the Norton Ghost 15?
b) What is the recommend sequence to clone the partitions?
c) By doing as instructed - do I need to worry about the drive names (C:/ D:/ and E:/) or are the drive names copied along the process?
d) Any special guidance I should follow?
Rgrds, Henrik