I'm seriously considering upgrading my Win XP laptop with a larger hard disk. But I'm seriously worried about the process. Can anyone recommend software and instructions to do this? Preferably cheap or free.

This raises another question. When you've spent several months or even years configuring an XP desktop and you finally decide to upgrade to a new machine, what are you supposed to do to copy all your data, applications and setup across to the new machine?

Hard disks are cheap these days. An 80Gb laptop drive is under £80. Desktop drives can be had for 2-300 Gb for similar money. So it's crazy to be struggling with a laptop that only has 20Gb or a Desktop that has 40Gb which is what was shipping a year ago. But it's not exactly easy to swap drives and there doesn't seem to be much help from the operating system to do it.

So let's hear from the MS experts how you would do it. [from: JB Ecademy]


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