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February 5, 2010 4:25 am | Slow Computer

How to Switch from one hard drive to another on a compaq laptop?

ok so i have a compaq laptop right, but one of my hard drives is almost full an it keeps either slowing my computer or freezing, how can i change some of the information that i have on one of the hard drives to another without deleting any information

chances are you only have 1 hard drive in a laptop, and it’s partitioned into 2.
as for replacing it, this is a little complicated…
what i;ve done for clients int this case it to remove the drive and hook it up to my desktop using an adpter like this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3012908&Sku=C250-3890

then, copy all the info/partitions to my desktop and then do the same w/ the replacement drive, only in reverse.

however, a better choice is to first try to upgrade your ram and maybe even change some of your settings like restore, virtual ram, and swap file.


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