[PVRCNC] Laptop hard drive question

[Brian Alsop]

I was hoping somebody out there has already done this.

Looking for an easy way to clone the contents of a laptop hard drive to 
a larger laptop drive.

I have a utility which I've used on desktop units for this purpose.  It 
clones the boot drive to another and optionally makes it bootable.  
Haven't tried it with NTFS (only FAT32) so far.  Does work with WIN-XP.  
Easy to use.  Just make the drive to be copied to a slave or secondary 
drive and run the program.   The resultant drive can be used as a direct 
replacement for the master when done and the master jumper set.

The thing which stumps me with the laptop:  No hard drive cable.  Plugs 
directly into motherboard.  How does one hook up a slave or secondary 
hard drive?

I was thinking of temporarily removing the CD-ROM/DVD drive and using 
that as the other drive to copy to.  However, I really would need some 
kind of extension cable.  Unfortunately, the laptop drive connectors 
have more pins than the standard desktop drives and a desktop cable 
won't directly work.   Perhaps the hard drive could just be plugged in 
replacing the CD-R0M.  Not sure.  Don't have new drive yet.

Any good suggestions?  Is NTFS different in that it can't work if the 
newer drive is larger?

73 de Brian/K3KO