Laptop HD Copy

Dr.Millah

My laptop packed it in yesterday (motherboard possibly) and i have taken the HDD out and i am reading it on another computer using an sata/usb adapter. All my files are ok and the HD is working fine.

I am just wondering what the best thing to do with it is. As i will now be using a desktop for a while i am hoping to copy all the data onto another HD.

Is just a Copy and Paste method the best? (i always get anoying "do you want to replace/overwrite" on 100`s of files when doing this)

Also, i used firefox on the laptop and i would like to be able to retrieve all the profile data from this (bookmarks/passwords) etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks
Neil

Biggins

I suspect what your looking for is Acronis True Image Home.

A complete back-up and re-install tool.
Much better and easier to use than Norton Ghost.

Used it myself a few times. Never had any problems.

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