Laptop harddrive

I want to change my hard drive in my laptop.Is there a easy way to transfer the data from my old hard drive to the new one. Thanks for any help.

 

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Absolutely. It really depends on what you want to transfer. If you want to just copy your personal stuff from My Documents, you can just drag-n-drop, copy-n-paste or use something like Unstoppable Copier http://www.majorgeeks.com/Unstoppable_Copier_d2623.html If you want to copy the entire drive with Windows and all the system files and drivers, then you'll need a bootable imaging program, and if you plan on doing this on your laptop, you'll need one that supports external USB drives, mainly because there's no other way to hook up the new drive to the laptop. So, here's some links:
DigitalDolly http://www.majorgeeks.com/Digital_Dolly_d5183.html
DriveImage XML http://www.majorgeeks.com/DriveImage_XML_d4919.html
EaseUs Drive Copy http://www.majorgeeks.com/EaseUs_Disk_Copy_d4845.html
HD Clone Free Edition http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDClone_Free_Edition_d3809.html
Those are some free ones... there are others (and many $hareware programs) available in the Major Geeks "Back Up" section and "Drive Utilities" section (links below). I haven't necessarily used each of these programs; I just did some quick looking around for you, so I'm not sure if they all will work with USB drives (Digital Dolly does though) so you'll need to research them a bit further. Anyway, I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to post!
Back Up downloads http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads3.html
Drive Utilities downloads http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads8.html

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