Thank you for your reply to my question on windows help, but I am afraid your
technical speak is not understood by me, "sate and other language. I just
want to install my hard disk on notebook amd Windows XP, surely is can be
simpler. I thought I just need to have drivers which I have in folders in my
files now and save them to a memory stick. Is it really so complex to do so
much more. ?

I guess I will have to pay some person to do it if it is.



"Big_Al" wrote:

> sunny marky wrote:
> > I need to install a new hard disk in my Dell notebook. I have a new Windows
> > XP CD and need some help on how to install it . I donot have the drivers CD
> > with my notebook so should I copy them from my file/ folders and install
> > when the XP is installed or how else can I do it? Would I be able to download
> > from Dell website once I installed Xp and connect to the internet?
> >
> > I would appreciate some advice because I have never done this before, can
> > anyone give me any tips and is it fairly simple to do this. Thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
> If you have the service tag, you can download all the drivers, (and
> should) from Dell.
>
> But an easier way to change drives is to get a trial copy of Acronis
> True Image Home http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/
> this or Seagate's Disk Wizard
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...ads/discwizard
> The latter is just the Acronis program, maybe trimmed down a bit.
>
> You also need an external USB drive enclosure that will accommodate your
> drive either SATA or IDE. Plug the drive into the enclosure, hook it
> up to windows and go into drive manager and partition and format it.
>
> Either of these software programs or some 'disk clone' software will
> probably have you make a bootable CD, and allow you to clone the current
> C: drive (or multiple partitions) on your current laptop onto the USB
> drive. You will be prompted to turn off everything and then you
> install the external drive internally and boot up as normal. Nothing
> lost or changed, but you have a new drive.
>
> Done it about 8 times now, works like a charm.
>
> When done you can use the external USB for backup using the old drive.
> If you like the program and want to continue using it to make backups of
> your system onto the USB drive, you can buy Acronis at NewEgg on sale
> once in a while. Look around.
>
> HTH Al.
>