How to clone Dell Inspiron 6400 ????????

I hope that I have put this question in the right forum......

I am going to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop hard drive from 100GB to 500GB. I have Acronis which I plan to use to do the job, which as far as I can see involves cloning the 100 GB drive and putting it onto the 500 GB drive.

But I don't think it can be as simple as that.

Do I have to alter the Bios to take into account the size of the new drive before I boot it.

When I look at what the excising hard drive contains using Partition Magic
there are 4 sections
Status
DELLUTILITY(*) Fat 78.4MB None Primary
Local disc (C) NTFS 90.797.1MB Active Primary
Local Disk(*) CP/M.Conc 3.074.9 None Primary
(*) unallocated 7.8 None Primary

My next question is will Acronis configure my new drive with the same types of file system i.e. Fat NTFS CP/M.Conc, Some of these look like files that might be needed to recover machine configuration in cases of failure.

Is there anything else that I need to do to make a success of the clone

 

You can use StorageCraft ShadowProtect instead. It's much easier to use and you can clone from 100gb to 500gb easily. You don't even need to alter anything because the software is hardware independant. If you use the Vista recovery environment it should load any needed drive. Otherwise, simple tells you which one are missing and you load them. Really quick too. www.storagecraft.com