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Shopping!
So now you hopefully have a rough idea of what you want, and what sort of interface it needs, so let's go shopping! To make things simple, I'll make you a quick checklist:
- A replacement 2.5 inch laptop hard disk (which uses the correct interface for your laptop). This is an important one! For my example upgrade, I'll be getting the 250GB Western Digital Scorpio from Ebuyer
- A USB hard disk caddy, which will allow the new hard disk to be plugged into the laptop for cloning. Using a caddy for this (rather than an IDE>USB adapter) also lets you use the old disk as a large portable USB storage device afterwards. I'd recommend this one, again from ebuyer for the princely sum of £4.69 at present. Hey big spender! While it might be cheap, it'll work just fine, which is more than can be said for most things which cost less than £5!
- Acronis True Image. For the transfer process, the free 15-day trial would probably be sufficient, although the full retail version is highly recommended at around £15-20 for further backup operations in the future (version 10 is currently on Amazon UK for around £17). Here we'll be using Acronis True Image Home v11, but version 11 adds little over version 10. In fact, you could always use that old disk in the USB caddy to store backups of your laptop on using Acronis afterwards, so go on, splash out - it's more than worth it.
- A small cross-head screwdriver for removing the hard disk cover under the laptop, and unscrewing the disk if fastened in further. Myself I'm going to use an electrical screwdriver I already own, but the USB caddy I've linked to above actually comes with a cheap small cross-head screwdriver that will do the job fine, so that's bonus points for the cheap disk caddy if you haven't already got a suitable screwdriver yourself!
Bet you can't guess which one came free with the caddy?
Give up? It's the green one of course.
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