Backup Laptop Hardrive

[spitso]

Hi there

Im just about to install a new laptop hardrive (from 80gb to 320gb). Just wondering if anyone can give me some instructions on how to fully backup the old hardrive so that i can put it on my new hardrive. I dont want to lose anything..i.e documents,pictures,music,video,programs, windows operating system.

Thanks

 

[blueroomelectronics]

Acronis True Image works great
Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis

 

[dknguyen]

Acronis Migrate Easy is what you want. It will clone your harddrive from one to another (and account for drive size differences in the process). It will copy files and operating system. There is a trial version that will run a certain number of times...it's what I used when I replaced my system harddrive with a larger one.

TrueIMage has more functions which you don't need.